Visualization of Phylogenetic Trees
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چکیده
We present a spring-embedder model for drawing rooted and unrooted phylogenetic trees with straight edges. Our heuristic strives for uniform edge lengths, and we develop it in analogy to forces in natural systems, for a simple, elegant, conceptually intuitive, and efficient algorithm. These algorithms are implemented on a web-based phylogeny visualization system that interoperates with existing tools developed for phylogenetic processing including CLUSTAL W, PHYLIP, PAUP. The molecular biologists can also manually construct their phylogenetic tree via existing system in, e.g., the Phylip format produced by CLUSTAL W as input format of the web system to which this data is to be fed.
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