[BioPython] Cladograms

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 28 18:14:22 UTC 2008


>> In my heatmap example you cited (using R), you can in principle supply
>> the tree to be used (instead of it defaulting to doing a hierarchical
>> clustering).  If you like the images from the R heatmap function, I
>> would suggest you look at loading phylogenetic trees into R and
>> passing them to the heatmap function.  I have not tried this myself.
>
> R's heatmap.2 is giving me what I need so far, it even reorders the
> columns/rows according to a pre-calculated dendrogram.
> The only thing that I don't like that much is how the dendrograms are
> plotted when multiple branches are at the same levels, but I can live with
> it :)

I'm glad that worked out OK.

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Peter



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