Trees conversion program

Description

Converts the output file 'treefile' of the program 'phylip' (a parenthesed tree in the Newick format), in a '.dot' file readable by the programs 'DOT' and 'NEATO' of Graphviz.
(See also the graph to Newick conversion page)

Examples

[Example] to write the parenthesed tree in the text area.
[Search] to obtain the graph with the dot, recopy it in a file 'phylogeny.dot'.
if neato is installed, type
neato -Tps -o phylogeny.ps phylogeny.dot
or neato -Tpng -o phylogeny.png phylogeny.dot
See the file 'phylogeny.ps' using Ghostview or the image 'phylogeny.png' in your browser...

Other examples :

(a,b,c,(d,e,(f,g),h));
(a1,b:1.5,(c:1,d:2,e:3,(((f:1,g:2)))));
Shrimps.
The empty names are not implemented.

Parenthesed tree

Graph

Installation

Download latest.tar.gz or latest.zip.

Links

Phylogenetic trees

Phylogeny Programs Phylip page, The Newick tree format

Centre de Ressources INFOBIOGEN

Graphviz et les logiciels dot, neato

The CompLearn Toolkit Rudi Cilibrasi

Ghostscript et Ghostview pour MS-Windows pour voir et imprimer les fichiers postscript.

Gv pour voir et imprimer les fichiers postscript sous Unix.

NEWICKTREE newicktree is a LaTeX package that allows the easy drawing of Newick (New Hampshire) format phylogenetic trees, by providing a high level interface to the PSTricks package. On this page you will find links to the newicktree program file, its documentation, installation instructions and contact information. Developer: GEORGE SAVVA.

Newick parenthesed tree to Dot input format