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TreeView

Tree drawing software for Apple Macintosh and Windows

TreeView is a simple program for displaying phylogenies on Apple Macintosh and Windows PCs. It has the following features:

• runs on both the Apple Macintosh and Windows Pcs, using almost identical interfaces
• reads standard NEXUS and PHYLIP format tree files
• supports standard the TrueType and Postscript fonts available on Macs and PCs
• supports native graphics file format (PICT on Macintosh, Windows metafile on Windows) for copying pictures into other applications, and for saving graphics files
• print preview
• has drag-and-drop facility
• Web-based online help
• tree editor

TreeView provides a simple way to view the contents of a NEXUS or PHYLIP tree file. While PAUP and MacClade have excellent tree printing facilities, there may be times you just want to view the trees without having to load the data set they were generated from. The PHYLIP package contains tree drawing programs which offer a greater variety of trees than TreeView, but are somewhat clumsy to use. The forthcoming PAUP* for DOS does not have a graphical interface, hence TreeView allows you to create publication quality trees from PAUP files, either directly, or by generating graphics files for editing by other programs.

The program currently reads trees with up to to 500 taxa.

Getting the program

TreeView comes in four versions, one for standard Macs, one for Power Macs and two for Windows (16 and 32 bit). The Macintosh versions require System 7.0 or later, the Windows versions require either Windows 3.1 or later (Win16) or Windows 95 or Windows NT (Win32). Click on the version you require:

Apple Macintosh (68K) (315K)

Power Macintosh (378K)

Win16 (Windows 3.1 -- Version 1.4 only) (537K)

Win32 (Windows 95 or Windows NT) (838K)

It's free but please register it!

TreeView is free, but please register your copy. Doing so puts you on a mailing list to receive notice of new versions of the program. To register please send the message

subscribe treeview

The current version of TreeView is 1.5 which was uploaded 23 February 1998. Click here to see the release history of the program.

TreeView manual

The manual for TreeView is now online, and contains details on installing and running TreeView, as well as a list of bugs, tips for handling various tree formats and instructions on how to cite TreeView.

Reporting Bugs

If you encounter a bug, it would be very helpful if you could send me a copy of the tree file you were using, so that I can try and reproduce the bug and fix it.

This page last updated 23 February 1998.