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Archaeopteryx (software)

Archaeopteryx is an interactive computer software program, written in Java, for viewing, editing, and analyzing phylogenetic trees. This type of program can be used for a variety of analyses of molecular data sets, but is particularly designed for phylogenomics. Besides tree description formats with limited expressiveness, it also implements the phyloXML format. Archaeopteryx is the successor to Java program A Tree Viewer (ATV).

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Archaeopteryx
DeveloperChristian M. Zmasek
Stable release
0.972+ beta 9M / 2012.08.08
Operating systemWindows, Linux, Mac OS X
TypeBioinformatics, phylogenomics
LicenseLGPL
Websitesites.google.com/site/cmzmasek/home/software/archaeopteryx
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Archaeopteryx is an interactive computer software program, written in Java, for viewing, editing, and analyzing phylogenetic trees. This type of program can be used for a variety of analyses of molecular data sets, but is particularly designed for phylogenomics. Besides tree description formats with limited expressiveness (such as Newick/New Hamphshire, Nexus), it also implements the phyloXML1 format. Archaeopteryx is the successor to Java program A Tree Viewer (ATV).2

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  1. Han, Mira V.; Zmasek, Christian M. (2009). "phyloXML: XML for evolutionary biology and comparative genomics". BMC Bioinformatics. 10: 356. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-356. PMC 2774328. PMID 19860910.
  2. Zmasek, Christian M.; Eddy, Sean R. (2001). "ATV: display and manipulation of annotated phylogenetic trees". Bioinformatics. 17 (4): 383–384. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/17.4.383. PMID 11301314.
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