Tim writes: > http://www.inxight.com/Inxight_Corporate_Web_Site/Edu_Org_Program/Intro_to_Program.html > > Take a look at this tool... looks like it could be useful for browsing > phylogenetic trees. Hmm ... :-) ... it looks quite fun ... (look at the spider phylogeny) We could adapt the rotating/zooming idea to the python phylogentic tool (pyphy or phypy .. or physpampy ?) Actually I really like the idea ... phylogenetic reconstructions tend to get large amounts of taxa - which is not easy to see in one window. I have to write a treeviewer module for my (hopefully) last bigger project (phylogenomics) in my thesis. I thought I would hack it in Tcl/Tk but with some help from other loci'ers I could try it in python. There is no good treeviewing program for all platforms (read: nothing for Linux and Solaris which doesn't need 8bpp color mode) I always had some problems to code treeparsing scripts and beeing able to represent them in a "good" way on the screen (trifurcation, distances etc.) I could need some help here ... I started on some smaller versions where the branches or taxa labels (in my case SWISSPROT ID's) are linked to yank (sequence retrieval), SWISSPROT database, blast and clustalw - which should be connected/linked from the whole genome map/sequence ... that seems to fit perfectly into the LOCI way of thinking. My time schedule: * mar,apr,may: finish my current paper * apr: bioinformatics meeting in Lyon(France) (RECOMB99) * apr: bioinformatics meeting in Lund(Sweden) (bioinformatics'99) (am I going to meet some of you in Lyon or Lund ?) * ???: start with the phylogenomic project I am very tempted to leave the whole sequence editor part to Dave and only keep on with the basic_nucleotide_sequence and phylogenetic tools. Suggestions ? -thomas -- Sicheritz Ponten Thomas E. Department of Molecular Biology blippblopp at linux.nu BMC, Uppsala University BMC: +46 18 4714214 BOX 590 S-751 24 UPPSALA Sweden Fax +46 18 557723 http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas Molecular Tcl: http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas/tcl Molecular Linux: http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas/mol_linux De Chelonian Mobile ... The Turtle Moves ...