title: tcsBU: a tool to extend TCS network layout and visualization.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  TCS is a widely used haplotype network reconstruction software, but lacks the capability of overlapping genetic with geographic structure, which is often a first step in phylogeographic analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  tcsBU is a web-based program that extends the capabilities of TCS, by implementing haplotype classification into an arbitrary user-defined scheme, which is displayed as pie-chart like graphs embedded into the network. Taking advantage of modern graphic libraries, tcsBU also improves the speed at which the final network layout is reached. Networks can be saved as a Scalable Vector Graphics format.
  
  
  METHODS
  tcsBU is available on-line at http://cibio.up.pt/software/tcsBU/. The source code is freely available from https://github.com/sairum/tcsbu/ under a standard MIT license.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal and.
authors.forename: António
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Múrias dos Santos
authors.affiliation: CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal and.
authors.forename: Maria Pilar
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Cabezas
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal and.
authors.forename: Ana Isabel
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Tavares
authors.affiliation: CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal and School of Biological Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AX, UK.
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xavier
authors.affiliation: CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal and.
authors.forename: Madalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Branco
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D006239:Haplotypes; D012984:Software