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TreeView

TreeView is a simple program that displays phylogenetic trees of up to 1000 taxa. Phylogenies may be displayed either as slanted or rectangular cladograms. TreeView provides a way to view trees created in NEXUS, PHYLIP, Clustal, or other tree formats.

TreeView OR TreeView X

Instructions

Note: TreeView uses different extensions for tree files than those used in other programs such as PAUP, MrBayes, PHYLIP, and Clustal. A tree file in NEXUS format should end with '.tre', a tree file in PHYLIP format should end with '.' and tree files from Clustal should end with '.dnd' (guide tree), '.phb' (bootstrap tree) or '.ph' (tree). The NEXUS consensus tree file you get from MrBayes, after you give the sumt command, ends with '.con'. To open this tree in TreeView, rename the file to 'something.tre' and open it in a text editor. The last branch length in the tree description needs to be deleted (:0.000000).

Example

Before editing -

#NEXUS
begin trees;
tree 'name' =(1:0.212481,8:0.297838,(9:0.222729,((6:0.201563,7:0.194547):0.282035,(4:1.146091,(3:1.008881,
(10:0.384105,(2:0.235682,5:0.353432):0.323680):0.103875):0.413540):0.254687):0.095341):0.079254):0.000000;
end;

After editing -

#NEXUS
begin trees;
tree 'name' =(1:0.212481,8:0.297838,(9:0.222729,((6:0.201563,7:0.194547):0.282035,(4:1.146091,(3:1.008881,
(10:0.384105,(2:0.235682,5:0.353432):0.323680):0.103875):0.413540):0.254687):0.095341):0.079254);
end;

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