Unrooted is a tree drawing program able to draw any binary tree expressed in the standard phylogenetic tree format (e.g., the format used by the PHYLIP package). Trees are drawn in an unrooted way, that is, using a circular shape, with labels aligned with terminal branches.
Treevolution is a Java tool for the representation and exploration of phylogenetic trees that facilitates visual analysis. There are several useful tools to visualize phylogenetic trees, but their level of interaction is usually low, especially in the case of radial representations. Highly interactive visualizations can improve the exploration and understanding of phylogenetic trees. Treevolution implements strategies to interact with phylogenetic trees in order to allow a more thorough analysis by users.
Ktreedist is a computer program written in Perl that calculates the minimum branch length distance from one phylogenetic tree to another, providing a measure of the difference in topology and relative branch lengths (shape) between two trees
SICLE (Sister Clade Extractor) is an easy to use, adaptable, and high-throughput tool to describe the nearest neighbors to a node of interest in a phylogenetic tree as well as the support value for the relationship.
SSA is a program for inferring maximum likelihood phylogenies from DNA sequences. Two versions of the program are available: one which assumes a molecular clock and one which does not make this assumption. The method for searching the space of trees for the ML tree is based on a simulated-annealing type algorithm and is described in the reference above. The program implements Felsenstein’s F84 model of nucleotide substitution and associated sub-models. The program estimates the ML tree and branch lengths, and can optionally estimate the transversion/transversion ratio. Upon termination, the program returns the k trees of highest likelihood found during the search, where k can be set by the user.
Given a newick binary tree T and its correpsonding multiple sequence alignemnt A of size n x m, where n is the number of leaf nodes in T and m is the length of the alignment, FitchAln generates a (n-1) x (m+1) Fitch score matrix representing the (Maximum Parsimony) number of mutations for each site for each internal node.