In article <439nlt$69g at gwdu19.gwdg.de>,
Jan T. Kim <kim at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de> wrote:
>I am looking for software to interactively design the layout of phylogenetic
>trees. The program should be able to read PHYLIP treefiles (New Hampshire
>format) and allow the positioning of branches and subtrees to resolve
>collisions.
> I would prefer a package with source code that compiles on Unix systems
>with X, and that includes a specification of the layout format, so I could
>write own programs to create layouts which could then be further refined
>interactively.
This is almost a perfect description of the very nice X windows program
TreeTool. Here is a description of it, from my PHYLIP documentation and
from our Web-borne phylogeny software list
http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/software.html
"Mike Maciukenas, at the Department of Microbiology of the University
of Illinois, has written a wonderful X-windows based interactive tree-plotting
program called TreeTool. It takes as input a PHYLIP tree file, with branch
lengths if they are provided, displays the tree in either rooted or unrooted
form on any X-windows screen, and allows the user to modify the form of the
tree and the placement of nodes and labels. When the tree is in final form the
user can have it written to a Postscript file and/or printed to a Postscript-
compatible printer. TreeTool is free as a C program for X windows and is
available for anonymous ftp from ftp.bio.indiana.edu in directory
molbio/unix/GDE."
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Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Washington, Box 357360, Seattle, WA 98195-7360
