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Table 1 Tree comparison facilities of phylogeny visualizing tools

From: CompPhy: a web-based collaborative platform for comparing phylogenies

Tool

Year

Type

Annotations

Joint edit.

Cons./SuperT.

Collab.

Reference

TreeView

2001

S.a.

No

No

No

No

[2]

TreeMap3

2002

S.a.

Int.

Yes

No

No

[11]

TreeDyn

2007

S.a.

Int. & scr.

Yes

No

No

[3]

EPOS

2008

S.a.

Int. & scr.

Yes

C. & S.

No

[12]

PhyloWidget

2008

Online

No

No

No

No

[13]

Archaeopteryx

2009

S.a. & Online

Int. & Scr.

No

No

No

[5]

PhyloExplorer

2009

online

No

Yes

No

No

[14]

ScripTree

2010

S.a. & Online

Scr.

Yes

No

No

[7]

TreeVector

2010

Online

No

No

No

No

[15]

iTOL

2011

Online

Scr.

No

No

No

[8]

ETE

2011

S.a. & Online

Int. & scr.

No

No

No

[16]

Dendroscope

2012

S.a.

Int. & scr.

Yes

C. & S.

No

[4]

FigTree

2012

S.a.

Int.

No

No

No

[6]

jsPhyloSVG

2012

Online

Scr.

No

No

No

[9]

Evolview

2012

Online

Scr.

No

No

No

[10]

CompPhy

2014

Online

Int. & scr.

Yes

C. & S.

Yes

This paper

  1. Year: date of the last release; Type: some tools run as stand-alone (S.a.) software after a download/installation procedure, others can be run online, inside a web browser; Annotations indicates which tools allow users to annotate trees with extra information (other than just branch length or support): Int. (available from the interface), Scr. (available through a script); Joint edit. indicates which tools offer edit functions that jointly apply to a set of trees (compared to tools with which the same action has to repeated on each tree) Cons./SuperT. indicates which tools offer consensus (C.) and/or supertree (S.) computation; Collab. indicates which tools offer functionalities allowing collaborative work.