Visual triangulation of network-based phylogenetic trees

  • Authors:
  • U. Brandes;T. Dwyer;F. Schreiber

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer & Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany;School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia;Bioinformatics Center, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

  • Venue:
  • VISSYM'04 Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Phylogenetic trees are built by examining differences in the biological traits of a set of species. An example of such a trait is a biological network such as a metabolic pathway, common to all species but with subtle differences in each. Phylogenetic trees of metabolic pathways represent multiple aspects of similarity and hypothetical evolution in a single, yet complex structure that is difficult to understand and interpret. We present a visualization method that facilitates analysis of such structures by presenting multiple coordinated perspectives simultaneously. Each of these perspectives constitutes a useful visualization in its own right, but it is only together that they unfold their full explorative power.