Title
Using treemaps to visualize phylogenetic trees
Abstract
Over recent years the field of phylogenetics has witnessed significant algorithmic and technical progress. A new class of efficient phylogeny programs allows for computation of large evolutionary trees comprising 500–1.000 organisms within a couple of hours on a single CPU under elaborate optimization criteria. However, it is difficult to extract the valuable information contained in those large trees without appropriate visualization tools. As potential solution we propose the application of treemaps to visualize large phylogenies (evolutionary trees) and improve knowledge-retrieval. In addition, we propose a hybrid tree/treemap representation which provides a detailed view of subtrees via treemaps while maintaining a contextual view of the entire topology at the same time. Moreover, we demonstrate how it can be deployed to visualize an evolutionary tree comprising 2.415 mammals. The respective software package is available on-line at www.ics.forth.gr/~stamatak.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11573067_29
ISBMDA
Keywords
Field
DocType
large tree,contextual view,efficient phylogeny program,appropriate visualization tool,detailed view,elaborate optimization criterion,large evolutionary tree,evolutionary tree,phylogenetic tree,large phylogeny,hybrid tree,evolutionary trees
Data mining,Phylogenetic tree,Visualization,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Software,Phylogenetics,Computation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3745
0302-9743
3-540-29674-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adam Arvelakis120.37
M Reczko249447.64
Alexandros Stamatakis399596.27
Alkiviadis Symeonidis4121.47
Ioannis G. Tollis51240162.75