title: Interactive visualization software for exploring phylogenetic trees and clades.
abstract: The Summary Tree Explorer (STE) is a Java application for interactively exploring sets of phylogenetic trees using two coupled representations: a node-and-link diagram and a textual list of common clades. Selection, pruning, filtering or re-rooting in one representation is immediately reflected in the other. While summary trees are more effective at showing the relationship among clades, they can only show a consistent subset of those that appear in the textual list. Working with both representations mitigates the disadvantages of having to choose just one.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  STE, along with several sample datasets, is available at http://cityscape.inf.cs.cmu.edu/phylogeny/
authors.affiliation: Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA. mad@cs.cmu.edu
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Derthick
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface