title: Evolview v2: an online visualization and management tool for customized and annotated phylogenetic trees.
abstract: Evolview is an online visualization and management tool for customized and annotated phylogenetic trees. It allows users to visualize phylogenetic trees in various formats, customize the trees through built-in functions and user-supplied datasets and export the customization results to publication-ready figures. Its 'dataset system' contains not only the data to be visualized on the tree, but also 'modifiers' that control various aspects of the graphical annotation. Evolview is a single-page application (like Gmail); its carefully designed interface allows users to upload, visualize, manipulate and manage trees and datasets all in a single webpage. Developments since the last public release include a modern dataset editor with keyword highlighting functionality, seven newly added types of annotation datasets, collaboration support that allows users to share their trees and datasets and various improvements of the web interface and performance. In addition, we included eleven new 'Demo' trees to demonstrate the basic functionalities of Evolview, and five new 'Showcase' trees inspired by publications to showcase the power of Evolview in producing publication-ready figures. Evolview is freely available at: http://www.evolgenius.info/evolview/.
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), No.7 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, 100029 Beijing, PR China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Zilong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), No.7 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, 100029 Beijing, PR China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Huangkai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), No.7 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, 100029 Beijing, PR China.
authors.forename: Shenghan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Institute for Computer Science and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences CEPLAS, Heinrich Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Lercher
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), No.7 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, 100029 Beijing, PR China BIG Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), No.7 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, 100029 Beijing, PR China chenwh550@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Wei-Hua
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), No.7 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, 100029 Beijing, PR China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China husn@big.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Songnian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001105:Archaea / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003196:Computer Graphics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D066264:Datasets as Topic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D014584:User-Computer Interface