TreeScaper: visualizing and extracting phylogenetic signal from sets of trees

Authors

Wen Huang, Guifang Zhou, Melissa Merchand, Jeremy Ash, Paul Van Dooren, Jeremy M. Brown, Kyle A. Gallivan, Jim Wilgenbush

Abstract

Modern phylogenomic analyses often result in large collections of phylogenetic trees representing uncertainty in individual gene trees, variation across genes, or both. Extracting phylogenetic signal from these tree sets can be challenging, as they are dicult to visualize, explore, and quantify. To overcome some of these challenges, we have developed TreeScaper, an application for tree set visualization as well as the identication of distinct phylogenetic signals. GUI and command-line versions of TreeScaper and a manual with tutorials can be downloaded from here TreeScaper is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Status

Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(12):3314-3316 DOI:10.1093/molbev/msw196, 2016.

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