TreeSnatcher plus: Capturing phylogenetic trees from images

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Laubach, Thomas ^a   von Haeseler, Arndt ^b,c,d   Lercher, Martin J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Image digitization; Newick format; Phylogenetic tree recognition; Phylogeny preservation

Indexed keywords

BRANCH LENGTH; FREEFORMS; FULLY AUTOMATED; IMAGE DIGITIZATION; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; JAVA APPLICATIONS; MACHINE-READABLE FORMAT; NEWICK FORMAT; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; PIXEL IMAGES; RECOGNITION PROCESS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; USER ASSISTANCE;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVOLUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYLOGENY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84861336168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-110     Document Type: Article

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