DESCRIPTION

Figtree is a (phylogenetic) tree figure drawing tool. It is designed as a graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees and as a program for producing publication-ready figures. In particular it is designed to display summarized and annotated trees produced by BEAST.

AUTHOR

Andrew Rambaut

Institute of Evolutionary Biology

University of Edinburgh

[email protected]

http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/

  • Uses the Java Evolutionary Biology Library (JEBL)

  • http://jebl.sourceforge.net/

  • Thanks to Alexei Drummond, Joseph Heled, Philippe Lemey,

  • Tulio de Oliveira, Beth Shapiro & Marc Suchard

  • Usage: figtree [-graphic <PDF|SVG|SWF|PS|EMF|GIF>] [-width <i>] [-height <i>] [-help] [<tree-file-name>] [<graphic-file-name>] -graphic produce a graphic with the given format -width the width of the graphic in pixels -height the height of the graphic in pixels -help option to print this message

  • Example: figtree test.tree Example: figtree -graphic PDF test.tree test.pdf Example: figtree -graphic GIF -width 320 -height 320 test.tree test.gif

Unrecognized argument: --version

  • FigTree v1.3.1, 2006-2009

  • Tree Figure Drawing Tool

  • Andrew Rambaut

  • Institute of Evolutionary Biology

  • University of Edinburgh

  • [email protected]

  • http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/

  • Uses the Java Evolutionary Biology Library (JEBL)

  • http://jebl.sourceforge.net/

  • Thanks to Alexei Drummond, Joseph Heled, Philippe Lemey,

  • Tulio de Oliveira, Beth Shapiro & Marc Suchard

  • Usage: figtree [-graphic <PDF|SVG|SWF|PS|EMF|GIF>] [-width <i>] [-height <i>] [-help] [<tree-file-name>] [<graphic-file-name>] -graphic produce a graphic with the given format -width the width of the graphic in pixels -height the height of the graphic in pixels -help option to print this message

  • Example: figtree test.tree Example: figtree -graphic PDF test.tree test.pdf Example: figtree -graphic GIF -width 320 -height 320 test.tree test.gif

RELATED TO figtree…

The full documentation for figtree is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and figtree programs are properly installed at your site, the command

  • info figtree

should give you access to the complete manual.