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What Is A Good Phylogenetic Tree Viewer, Such That I Can View Internal Nodes?

What is a good phylogenetic tree viewer, such that I can view internal nodes? I have run a script to name internal nodes according to their descendants. My goal is to find internal nodes with homogeneous descendants. I would like to do this by eye but the phylogenetic tree viewers I have tried do not have options, or at the least obvious options, to display these internal node names. I have already tried Mega, Dendroscope, and DNAstar. Any other options?

Alternatively, does anyone have a good script to collapse a large (N>1500) tree according to the leaves naming scheme? My end goal is to cluster the tree as best as possible automatically. Thank you.

phylogenetics tree visualization clustering

This thread As Dendroscope does not work for you, try FigTree and Archaeopteryx.

I use seaview, ete2 and iTol.

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tree viewers have been discussed around here a few times before, so you can even try browsing BioStar for such information. my personal option, and I should say that I'm not a phylogenetic-centered bioinformatician, would be Archaeopteryx (what a name!), the successor to ATV based on the forester libraries. it is the sugested interface for the phyloxml syntax, which I have found great to represent any tree I have had to deal with.

+1 for Archaeopteryx.

It worked, thanks! I can view internal node names now.

I fixed the link to Archaeopteryx, which was no longer working.

Have a look at Epos, it is a Java library and application that can do a lot of weird things with phylogenies, multiple alignments and trees. Among other things it can display a tree with inner node labels. The search function allows to search for all node names and matching subtrees can be highlighted. If it can handle a large tree like yours could be worth a try.

See this What phylogeny viewing software do you use? . It asks a similar question and/or the links provided therein could allow you to do what you need. I would also look at the links provided in Roderic Page's blog, iPhylo. Phyloviewer and Topiary Explorer are two viewers that you should check.

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