Laubach Thomas, von Haeseler Arndt
Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Dr-Bohr-Gasse 9/6, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.
Bioinformatics. 2007 Dec 15;23(24):3384-5. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm438. Epub 2007 Sep 24.
TreeSnatcher is a GUI-driven JAVA application for the semi-automatic recognition of multifurcating phylogenetic trees in pixel images. The program accepts an image file as input and analyzes the topology and the metrics of a tree depicted. The analysis is carried out in a multiple-stage process using algorithms from image analysis. In the end, TreeSnatcher produces a Newick tree code that represents the tree structure optionally including branch lengths. TreeSnatcher can process trees with 100 leaves or more in a few seconds.
TreeSnatcher was developed in JAVA under Mac OS X and is executable on UNIX/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X systems. The application and its documentation can be freely downloaded from http://www.cibiv.at/software/treesnatcher.
TreeSnatcher是一个由图形用户界面驱动的Java应用程序，用于在像素图像中半自动识别多分叉系统发育树。该程序接受图像文件作为输入，并分析所描绘树的拓扑结构和度量。分析过程分多个阶段进行，使用图像分析算法。最后，TreeSnatcher生成一个Newick树代码，该代码表示树结构，可选择包括分支长度。TreeSnatcher可以在几秒钟内处理具有100个或更多叶子的树。
TreeSnatcher是在Mac OS X系统下用Java开发的，可在UNIX/Linux、Windows和Mac OS X系统上执行。该应用程序及其文档可从http://www.cibiv.at/software/treesnatcher免费下载。
