njplot - A phylogenetic tree drawing program for biologists newicktops - draw phylogenetic trees into
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Description
This manual page documents briefly the njplot command.
The newicktops command does exactly the same but needs no X11 display. The output is rendered into a
PostScript file.
The newicktotxt command does exactly the same as newicktops but the output is rendered into a text file.
This manual page was rewritten for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does
not have a manual page.
njplot is a tree drawing program able to draw any binary or multi-branched tree expressed in the standard
phylogenetic tree format (e.g., the format used by the PHYLIP package). NJplot is especially convenient
for rooting the unrooted trees obtained from parsimony, distance or maximum likelihood tree-building
methods.
Any rooting of the unrooted tree can be interactively specified using the mouse. NJplot also allows
zooming, branch swapping, display of bootstrap scores and saving in the PostScript format. NJplot can
therefore be used as a graphical extension of any package of phylogenetic program which employs the
standard tree format for storing trees (i.e., with most such packages).
Name
njplot - A phylogenetic tree drawing program for biologists newicktops - draw phylogenetic trees into
PostScript file
Options
There are only the following options which only work in an x-terminal-emulator, but not in console mode:
-h Prints out brief help.
-us Postscript tree file prepared for US Letter paper size.
-psonly
No window interface, just write the PostScript tree file.
-sizen
Font size n used for taxon names.
-pcn number of pages for PostScript output.
-psizewidthxheight
size of PostScript page expressed as WIDTHxHEIGHT.
-lengths
Show branch lengths if they appear in tree file.
-boot Show bootstrap values if they appear in tree file.
-notitle
Don't include title in PostScript output.
See Also
unrooted(1).
Synopsis
njplot [options] tree_filenewicktops [options] tree_filenewicktotxt [options] tree_file
