Interactive web-based visualization of phylogenetic trees using Phylogeny.IO

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1 Digital Reframe, Nis, Serbia
2 Ecology and Evolution Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2579v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Evolutionary Studies
Keywords
phylogeny, visualization, interactive
Copyright
© 2016 Jovanovic et al.
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Cite this article
Jovanovic N, Mikheyev AS. 2016. Interactive web-based visualization of phylogenetic trees using Phylogeny.IO. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2579v1

Abstract

Traditional static publication formats make visualization, exploration and sharing of massive phylogenetic trees difficult. Web-based technologies, such as the Data Driven Document (D3) JavaScript library, exist to overcome such challenges by allowing interactive display of complex data sets. We here we an open-source web-based application that applies the power of D3 to the visualization of phylogenetic trees. Phylogeny.IO (http://phyloeny.io) displays trees together with a range of static (e.g., such as shapes and colors) and dynamic (e.g., pop-up text and images) annotations. Annotated trees can be shared as IFrame HTML objects easily embeddable in any web page.

Author Comment

This project will be open source in the immediate future, though not at the moment of this preprint's submission. The first version of the preprint is mainly to generate a DOI that will be referenced in the web site itself. The web site is already operational.