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
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).