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Phylographer - Visualizes evolutionary relationships

PhyloGrapher helps you visualize and study evolutionary relationships within families of homologous genes or proteins (elements). It is a drawing tool that generates custom graphs for the given set of elements. It can be used to visualize any type of interactions between elements you want.

Each gene or protein on a graph is represented as a colored node (vertex) and connected to other nodes (vertices) by lines (edges) of variable thickness and color based on the similarity of genes or proteins (distance matrix). The user positions these nodes in such a way as to optimize visualization of the inter-relationships between the nodes. Unlike classical phylogenetic trees, the physical distances on the graph between nodes have no information content. The level of similarity between genes or proteins on PhyloGrapher's graphs is indicated by color and line thickness.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://atgc.org/PhyloGrapher/PhyloGrapher_Welcome.html
Source tarball http://atgc.org/PhyloGrapher/PhyloGrapher_April_03_2003.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://atgc.org/PhyloGrapher/PhyloDownload.html
Version 2003-04-03 (stable) released on 2003-04-03
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<akozik@atgc.org>
Developer List<akozik@atgc.org>
Bug List<akozik@atgc.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Sponsors
  • National Science Foundation, UC Davis

Related information

InterfacesX Window System
Source languagesTcl/Tk
Weak prerequisitesfasta (ftp://ftp.virginia.edu/pub/fasta)
Related programsOpen BEAGLE, GAUL

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-11-07
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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