Table 1

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


A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L

ATV
2 k










pdf
Dendroscope
350 k










eps, svg, png, jpg, gif, bmp
HyperTree
20 k


1







-
MEGA
20 k










emf
PHYLIP
1336 k2










ps, bmp, pict, pov, fig
SplitsTree4
1 k

3








eps, svg, png, jpg, gif, bmp
TreeDyn
5 k










ps, svg, png, jpg, gif, etc.
TreeJuxtaposer
1002 k










-
TreeView
2 k4


5
6






wmf, emf

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