GPT: a web-server to map phylogenetic trees on a virtual globe
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- Subject Areas
- Biogeography, Computational Biology, Evolutionary Studies, Epidemiology, Global Health
- Keywords
- geolocation, geotrack, GPT, global positioning trees, spatial epidemiology, phylogeography, phylogenetic trees
- Copyright
- © 2015 Puigbo 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
- 2015. GPT: a web-server to map phylogenetic trees on a virtual globe. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e840v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.840v1
Abstract
GPT (Global Positioning Trees) is a web-server that maps phylogenetic trees on a virtual globe. The minimum requirements are a phylogenetic tree and geographical coordinates of leaves to generate a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file that can be viewed on Google Earth. An advantage of GPT is the results may be pre-visualized directly on the web. This web-server also implements several tools to display geolocation and geotrack data. GPT has been designed to be an easy-to-use tool to track evolutionary processes and will be useful for phylogeographical and spatial epidemiological studies. It covers a wide-range of visualizations divided in three components increasingly complex: geolocation, geotrack and GPT. This web-server is freely available at http://ppuigbo.me/programs/GPT and only requires Internet access, a web browser, and an earth browser able to read KML files. Several examples and a tutorial are accessible from the web-server’s home page.
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