Inparablog

The bigger your phylogenetic tree, the bigger your headache! And I’m not just talking about the huge amount of time it will take to calculate the alignments and the actual tree using PhyloBayes or PhyML. Interpretation will become near impossible. ‘Simplify’ is the magic word here, I think, but at some point you have to look at your phylogenetic tree as a whole…

I recently teamed up with a collegue to work together on a project because our individual research projects crossed paths. We devided work and each picked a gene family to work on. The resulting phylogenetic trees are depicted below.

Sometimes you can not beat good old fashioned paper .

I’m using Dendroscope as my prefered tree viewer, but I don’t know if there is anything better out there for viewing large phylogenies. If somebody can recomment me something, please drop me a comment!