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Phylowood: interactive web-based animations of biogeographic and phylogeographic histories
Michael J Landis1, Trevor Bedford
1Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Institute of Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK and Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Summary:
Phylowood is a web service that uses JavaScript to generate in-browser animations of biogeographic and phylogeographic histories from annotated phylogenetic input. The animations are interactive, allowing the user to adjust spatial and temporal resolution, and highlight phylogenetic lineages of interest.
Availability And Implementation:
All documentation and source code for Phylowood is freely available at https://github.com/mlandis/phylowood, and a live web application is available at https://mlandis.github.io/phylowood.
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