TreeDyn: towards dynamic graphics and annotations for analyses of trees

Background: Analyses of biomolecules for biodiversity, phylogeny or structure/function studies often use graphical tree representations. Many powerful tree editors are now available, but existing tree visualization tools make little use of meta-information related to the entities under study such as taxonomic descriptions or gene functions that can hardly be encoded within the tree itself (if using popular tree formats). Consequently, a tedious manual analysis and post-processing of the tree graphics are required if one needs to use external information for displaying or investigating trees. Results: We have developed TreeDyn, a tool using annotations and dynamic graphical methods for editing and analyzing multiple trees. The main features of TreeDyn are 1) the management of multiple windows and multiple trees per window, 2) the export of graphics to several standard file formats with or without HTML encapsulation and a new format called TGF, which enables saving and restoring graphic...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: François Chevenet, Christine Brun, Anne-Laure Bañuls, Bernard Jacq, Richard Christen
• Keywords: Annotations, BMCBI 2006, Graphical, Tree