What problem does it solve?
ETE Toolkit helps you load, manipulate, compare, and publish phylogenetic and hierarchical trees so you can move from raw Newick files to analyzed, visual results.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Tree manipulation & comparisons: Read/write Newick (and related formats), prune taxa, reroot (including midpoint), compute distances, and measure topology differences with Robinson–Foulds.
- Phylogenetic analysis with event detection: Use gene trees to detect duplication/speciation events, infer orthologs/paralogs, and split gene families by evolutionary events.
- Taxonomy-aware annotation & visualization: Build and annotate trees using NCBI taxonomy and render publication-quality figures (PDF/SVG/PNG), optionally with custom node styling and faces.
- Clustering support: Analyze hierarchical clustering dendrograms via ClusterTree and compute cluster quality metrics (e.g., silhouette, Dunn index).
Quick Start
Render a publication-ready visualization of your Newick tree by running the quick visualization script on your input file and saving to output.pdf.