What problem does it solve?
Phylogenetic analysis often requires manual scripting to manipulate trees, detect evolutionary events, and integrate taxonomy. This Skill provides a comprehensive toolkit for tree operations, event detection, and visualization to streamline phylogenomic workflows.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Tree manipulation and analysis: load, prune, reroot, traverse, and compare trees in common formats (Newick, NHX, PhyloXML, NeXML).
- Phylogenetic analysis and orthology: detect duplication/speciation events, derive ortholog groups, and perform gene-tree analyses with alignments.
- NCBI taxonomy integration: build taxonomy-informed trees, annotate leaves, and retrieve lineages using NCBITaxa.
- Visualization: generate publication-ready figures with configurable layouts, styles, and faces for leaves and nodes.
- Use cases: researchers load gene trees, identify evolutionary events, cluster by speciation, and export ortholog groups for downstream studies.
Quick Start
Load a gene tree with an alignment, run event detection, and export ortholog groups.