Tree andTrees - softwares for visualisation and manipulations

"Best" softwares by category

Under construction - april 2008.

Handle annotation   Comparison of clusters   Reconciled trees  Networks  Web servers    Hudge trees   Explore sequences   PipeLines   

Able to handle external annotations

TreeQ-Vista, uses COG informations to annotate the leavesof a tree with colors. Relationnal databases can be used to annotate.

See hudge trees

The elaborate program TreeWiz can handle huge trees with up to 50,000 leaves and lets the user explore such trees by collapsing and expanding nodes interactively. There is an online version, too (which has not been maintained and currently seems not to be functional, but the author offers to update it upon demand): In order to explore one's own trees rather than the given example trees, one must give read access to one's home directory to the program Java applet (in general, this would constitute a somewhat liberal security policy) and create a new directory with a specific name which must hold the trees.
Dendroscope

Comparison of clusters or trees

MAST   16448033
K tree score

Reconciled trees

a reconciliation describes how a guest tree, G (e.g., a gene tree in the case of gene evolution), evolves inside a host tree, S (e.g., a species tree), and allows the prediction and dating of evolutionary events (e.g., gene duplications or speciations) corresponding to vertices of G with respect to S. A special case is the most parsimonious reconciliation, MPR, i.e., the reconciliation that minimizes the number of evolutionary events. In order to avoid confusion, we will here use the term general reconciliation to indicate the set of all possible reconciliationsprimetv

Networks

SplitsTree    18218099

Web servers

A few programs, however, do have a web interface.
Phylodendron presents the user with several choices of tree style and appearance as well as different formats for the output image. Not all combinations of parameter settings seem to be fully implemented, though. The images are in black and white and have no branch length labels (only a rule).
PhyloView  is a web based visualization tool which can illustrate the potential differences between the deduced phylogeny of a protein sequence alignment and the taxonomic relationship of the species of the sequences. The user uploads a Newick tree and can then decide any taxonomic partition for the species and choose a coloring. Thus, the aim of the program is not merely displaying Newick trees, and therefore no further control over the tree image is possible.
http://www.trex.uqam.ca/index.php?action=newick&project=trex

Explore sequences

Nexplorer Phylo-comparison

PipeLines

Bosque
Mega
Panta rhei
Power
TreeFinder 15222900
T-Rex