Post tagged: visualisation

Coloring dendroscope files

How to programatically label phylogenies.

The need had arisen for the tips of a large phylogeny to be labelled in a systematic way. Rather than "point and click" within Dendroscope, this script takes a .den/dendro file and colors the tips according to a "color description" file. This is a simple csv file with taxa …

Rubyvis

Some problems, some solutions.

If you need to draw a custom graph type in Ruby, there's a few problems:

  1. There's only a modest number of graphing libraries
  2. You don't have to go to far for your graph type to not be covered by these

Which leaves you few choices. You could manually draw it …