A new ETE
version (2.2) is now available. It includes several new features
and bug fixes. Most notably,
- A new
EvolTree class type, developed by Francois Serra (at CNAG),
which can be used to run adaptation tests and visualize results
directly on tree branches and alignments.
-
Several new face types are available to plot
sequence domains, PieCharts
and Barplots (see extended changelog for some
examples)
- The TreeKO method
(Marcet-Houben and Gabaldón, 2011), used to render all species trees
derived from a duplicated gene family tree, has been ported and
optimized as a built-in function of the PhyloTree class.
- The core Tree object includes some new features, such as
a robinson-foulds metric function, new traversing
methods including the iteration of node ancestors,
custom collapsing options, an improved tree
pruning method, and several function to resolve polytomies
and check the monophyly of custom attributes within
a given node.
ETE is developed as an academic free software tool. If you find ETE useful for your work, please cite:
Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Joaquín Dopazo and Toni Gabaldón. ETE: a python Environment for Tree Exploration. BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:24. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-24
The ETE Toolkit was originally
developed at the bioinformatics
department of CIPF and greatly improved
at the comparative genomics unit
of CRG. At present, ETE is maintained by Jaime
Huerta-Cepas at the Structural and
Computational Biology unit of EMBL (Heidelberg,
Germany).