treetool(1)

NAME

treetool - interactive tool for displaying trees

SYNOPSIS

treetool [filename] [options]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the treetool utility. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program did not have a manual page.

treetool is an interactive tool for displaying, editing, and printing phylogenetic trees. The tree is displayed visually on screen, in various formats, and the user is able to modify the format, structure, and characteristics of the tree. Trees may be viewed, compared, formatted for printing, constructed from smaller trees, etc.

OPTIONS

This program is usually started under X from the menu, or with the command treetool, but also has the following commandline options:

-h Display brief help and this list of options.

-p, -phenogram
Specifies phenogram (boxed) tree format.
-r, -radial
Specifies radial (flower) tree format.
-auto Start with automatic formatting.
-noauto
Start without automatic formatting.
-merge Start with automatic node merging.
-nomerge
Start without automatic node merging.

SEE ALSO

phylip(1),

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Dr. Guenter Bechly <gbechly@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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