Interactive web-based visualization of phylogenetic trees using Phylogeny.IO
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- Subject Areas
- Evolutionary Studies
- Keywords
- phylogeny, visualization, interactive
- Copyright
- © 2016 Jovanovic et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Interactive web-based visualization of phylogenetic trees using Phylogeny.IO. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2579v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2579v1
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.