Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on February 8, 2008
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn038
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Interactive Visualization Software for Exploring Phylogenetic Trees and Clades
Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA, mad@cs.cmu.edu
To whom correspondence should be addressed. Mr. Mark Derthick, E-mail: mad{at}cs.cmu.edu
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The Summary Tree Explorer (STE) is a Java application for interac-tively exploring sets of phylogenetic trees using two coupled repre-sentations: a node-and-link diagram and a textual list of common clades. Selection, pruning, filtering, or re-rooting in one representa-tion is immediately reflected in the other. While summary trees are more effective at showing the relationship among clades, they can only show a consistent subset of those that appear in the textual list. Working with both representations mitigates the disadvantages of having to choose just one.
STE, along with several sample datasets, is available at http://cityscape.inf.cs.cmu.edu/phylogeny/
Associate Editor: Prof. Martin Bishop
Received on November 8, 2007; revised on January 23, 2008; accepted on January 24, 2008