Dendroscope

Software for visualizing phylogenetic trees and rooted networks.

Dendroscope 2 - An interactive viewer for large phylogenetic trees and networks

Researchers studying phylogenetic relationships need software that is able to visualize rooted phylogenetic trees and networks efficiently, increasingly of large datasets involving hundreds of thousands of taxa. The program should be user friendly (easy to run on all popular operating systems), facilitate interactive browsing and editing the trees and allow one to export the result in multiple file formats in publication quality.

We have developed the platform independent tree and rooted network viewer Dendroscope that addresses these issues.

Feature List:

large trees with hundreds of thousands of taxa can be easily displayed, browsed and edited;
novel magnifying features for zooming detailed views (see screenshots);
search functionality to search trees with regular expressions;
subtrees can be collapsed and colored;
all labels (leaves/inner nodes and edges) can be edited;
trees can be rerooted;
four views are available: rectangular, slanted, circular and radial view;
input formats: Newick and Nexus, extended-Newick (for rooted phylogenetic networks) and Dendroscope;
multiple graphic export formats: .eps, .svg, .png, .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .pdf;
trees and networks can be copied and pasted between different windows
platform independent (Java, installers for common operating systems available)
consensus trees and rooted phylogenetic networks can be computed from a set of trees

Download

Use of the program requires a license. Academic licenses are freely available to all academic users. Usage in non-academic settings requires a free commerical license. All uses of the program must be acknowledged by citing our paper on Dendroscope. Obtain a license key online.

Download an installer for linux, MacOS X or Windows here.

You can test the performance of the program on the NCBI taxonomy.

Webstart

To launch a recent version of the program immediately click here.

References

- Daniel H Huson, Daniel C Richter, Christian Rausch, Tobias Dezulian, Markus Franz and Regula Rupp.

Dendroscope: An interactive viewer for large phylogenetic trees

BMC Bioinformatics. 2007 Nov 22;8(1):460

Reference (Here you can find Table 1 from the paper in case it is wrongly displayed in the pdf or at the BMC webpage.)

The new network capabilities introduced in version 2.0 are based on the following papers:

- D.H. Huson and R. Rupp, Summarizing Multiple Gene Trees using Cluster Networks, WABI 2008, 295-305.

- D.H. Huson, Drawing Rooted Phylogenetic Networks, TCBB, 2008, in press.

- Daniel H. Huson, Regula Rupp, Vincent Berry, Philippe Gambette and Christophe Paul, How to Compute Rooted Phylogenetic Networks from Clusters, under review.

If you have any comments or questions then please write us an email.

You can also reach this site via: http://www.dendroscope.org

Screenshots

Same tree - seven different views: Rectangular Phylogram, Rectangular Cladogram, Slanted Cladogram, Circular Phylogram, Circular Cladogram,
Radial Phylogram and Radial Cladogram: