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TidyTree

Uncompromisingly Flexible Phylogenetic Trees in Javascript, powered by d3

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TidyTree is both a full-featured web application for users, along with the underlying library for developers.

Launch the Application

Launch TidyTree

It’s designed to replicate much of the functionality of FigTree, though it’s by no means a perfect replacement. It does, however, run entirely in-browser.

Developer Quick Start

First import the library:

<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v5.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/tidytree@0.5.0/dist/tidytree.min.js"></script>

(It requires d3!)

Then stick this in an HTML script tag:

let newick = "(A:0.1,B:0.2,(C:0.3,D:0.4):0.5);";
let tree = new TidyTree(newick, { parent: "body" });

And Voila! Your body will be populated by a phylogenetic tree.

Developer Documentation

…is available here.

Shoutouts

tidytree is based on this gist (See in action), which “mostly just duplicates the cannonical[sic] d3.tree and d3.cluster bl.ocks by Mike Bostock.”

Why?

MicrobeTrace needed a Phylogenetic Tree renderer that enabled rerooting and distance scaling. Additionally, there were a bunch of nice-to-haves, like Unrooted and Circular views, Zooming, Colorable and Selectable nodes… You get the idea.

As for the viewer, well, we needed a platform to rapidly prototype features for the library. The product of that is a single-page web application that leverages literally all of the features of the library. If you’re a dork like me, you can see this in the coding of the index.html file. Notice how all of the select widgets are programmatically populated–that’s so we could implement new features (e.g. layouts) without having to update the Demo HTML. After that, all we had to do was keep the UI clean.

Public Domain

This repository constitutes a work of the United States Government and is not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 USC § 105. This repository is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication. All contributions to this repository will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.

License

The repository utilizes code licensed under the terms of the Apache Software License and therefore is licensed under ASL v2 or later.

This source code in this repository is free: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Apache Software License version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This source code in this repository is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Apache Software License for more details.

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The source code forked from other open source projects will inherit its license.

Privacy

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Contributing

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Records

This repository is not a source of government records, but is a copy to increase collaboration and collaborative potential. All government records will be published through the CDC web site.

Notices

Please refer to CDC’s Template Repository for more information about contributing to this repository, public domain notices and disclaimers, and code of conduct.