[Bioperl-l] graphing trees

Brian O'Connor boconnor at ucla.edu
Wed Nov 3 14:21:04 EST 2004


Bio::TreeIO::svggraph will let you create an SVG of a tree from a Newick 
formated file.

--Brian

Sean Davis wrote:

> Did you look at:
>
> http://workshop.molecularevolution.org/resources/fileformats/ 
> tree_formats.php
>
> I happen to use R (statistical programming environment), which has 
> some  stuff for plotting trees (which I don't use).
> http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/ade4html/plot.phylog.html
>
> You might do a web search for "newick tree" to get stuff related to  
> newick format and drawing it.
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>
>> Sean Davis wrote:
>>
>>> Not a bioperl answer, but you might want to look at:
>>> http://search.cpan.org/search?query=graphviz&mode=all
>>> Graphviz is a very nice package for dealing with graph visualization.
>>
>> It's what I used sofar, however it's not that practical for trees:
>> - internal nodes are always visible
>> - edges are always directs
>> - you can't adjust their length easily
>
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