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Comparison of popular tree viewers. Description of column headers: A: displayable taxa (see Methods section for details), B: search function, C: tree comparison, D: coloring of subtrees, E: editing of labels, F: collapsing of subtrees, G: rerooting, H: rectangular view, I: slanted view, J: radial view, K: circular view, L: graphic export formats |
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C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
H |
I |
J |
K |
L |
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| ATV |
2 k |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
pdf |
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| Dendroscope |
350 k |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
eps, svg, png, jpg, gif, bmp |
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| HyperTree |
20 k |
✓ |
✓1 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
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| MEGA |
20 k |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
emf |
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| PHYLIP |
1336 k2 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
ps, bmp, pict, pov, fig |
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| SplitsTree4 |
1 k |
✓ |
✓3 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
eps, svg, png, jpg, gif, bmp |
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| TreeDyn |
5 k |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
ps, svg, png, jpg, gif, etc. |
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| TreeJuxtaposer |
1002 k |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
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| TreeView |
2 k4 |
✓5 |
✓6 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
wmf, emf |
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1only single edges 2only if "Iterate to improve tree" is set to "no", though trees become illegible as there is no possibility of hiding or magnifying subtrees 3using consensus networks 4TreeViewX (equivalent to version 0.95 of TreeView): 50 k 5only labels 6only internal nodes | ||||||||||||
Huson et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:460 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-460 |
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