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. 2015 Aug 25;4:38. doi: 10.1186/s13742-015-0077-2

Table 7.

Tree viewers and phylogenies

Tool and references Description URL
ARB [123] A graphically oriented package comprising various tools for sequence database handling and data analysis http://www.arb-home.de/
Bio.Phylo [286] A unified toolkit for processing, analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic trees in Biopython http://biopython.org
Dendroscope [125] Software for visualizing phylogenetic trees and rooted networks http://ab.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/software/dendroscope/
ETE Toolkit [287] Python programming toolkit that assists in the automated manipulation, analysis and visualization of phylogenetic and other types of trees http://etetoolkit.org/
EvolView [288] Tool for displaying, managing and customizing phylogenetic trees http://www.evolgenius.info/evolview.html
iTOL [126] Online tool for the display and manipulation of phylogenetic trees http://itol.embl.de/
MEGA [122] Integrated tool for phylogenetic analysis and visualization http://www.megasoftware.net/
NJplot [124] A tree drawing program able to draw any phylogenetic tree expressed in the Newick phylogenetic tree format http://doua.prabi.fr/software/njplot
OneZoom [289] Committed to heightening awareness about the diversity of life on earth and its evolutionary history http://www.onezoom.org/
Paloverde [290] 3D visualization of phylogenetic structure of moderately large trees on the scale of 100–2500 leaf nodes http://loco.biosci.arizona.edu/paloverde/paloverde.html
PhyloDraw [291] Drawing tool for creating phylogenetic trees http://jade.cs.pusan.ac.kr/phylodraw/
PhyloExplorer [292] Tool to facilitate assessment and management of phylogenetic tree collections http://www.ncbi.orthomam.univ-montp2.fr/phyloexplorer/
PhyloWidget [293] Program for viewing, editing and publishing phylogenetic trees online http://www.phylowidget.org/
TreeDyn [294] TreeDyn links unique leaf labels to lists of variables/values pairs of annotations, independently of the tree topologies http://www.treedyn.org/
TreeGraph [295] A graphical editor for phylogenetic trees that allows many graphical formats for the elements of the tree http://treegraph.bioinfweb.info/
TreeQ-Vista [296] Designed for presenting functional annotations in a phylogenetic context http://genome.lbl.gov/vista/TreeQVista/
TreeVector [297] Web utility to create and integrate phylogenetic trees as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files http://supfam.cs.bris.ac.uk/TreeVector/
TreeVolution [298] Java tool to support visual analysis of phylogenetic trees http://vis.usal.es/treevolution
T-REX [299] Web server dedicated to the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees and reticulation networks and to the inference of horizontal gene transfer events http://www.trex.uqam.ca/
ViPhy [300] Comparison of multiple phylogenetic trees http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/research/vissearch/projects/ViPhy/