1. Download Phyloviz

PHYLOViZ core and several plugins are free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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Code licensed under this license may be reused in commercial products provided that changes made directly in the sources - bug fixes or enhancements - must be contributed back to PHYLOViZ, but new source files (as in new plugins) which you write that link to PHYLOViZ code do not need to be.

Choose the appropriate version for your operating system or the .jar file. The OS specific versions already contain some memory specific parameters to enhance the software performance when using large datasets.

See details about available plugins and the licenses under which they are covered.

Binaries

Platform specific packages are available at https://bitbucket.org/phyloviz/phyloviz-main/downloads (click below for direct download).

Linux
Mac OS X (.tgz)
Windows up to 7. Windows 8 users please use the Universal Zip package

Universal packages:

Cross-platform zip distribution package

Just unzip the package and run either bin/phyloviz.exe or bin/phyloviz accordingly to your operating system. Note that you must have a JRE environment installed. You may need to change some default parameters, such as memory requirements, in etc/phyloviz.conf.

NOTE: You may need to adjust some parameters in etc/phyloviz.conf with respect to memory usage. These settings have a strong impact on visualization features. For instance, in Windows, you may achieve better results with:

default_options="--branding phyloviz -J-Xss8M -J-Xms32m -J-Xmx1024M --laf javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel"

IMPORTANTE NOTICE: After installing always go to the "Help" menu and "Check for updates" to install any novel plugins or latest updates to PHYLOViZ software. The SNP analysis plugin is installed in this way to demonstrate the plugin capability.

To access the previous beta version of Phyloviz please follow this link.

Source

All the Source code is available in the new code repository for in bitbucket.org. Check it out inhttps://bitbucket.org/phyloviz/phyloviz-main.

Check plugins section. PHYLOViZ is built on top of the NetBeans Platform, thus we recommend NetBeans for the development of new plugins.

After downloading the latest version of PHYLOViZ, you can start the tutorial in the following link: Loading Data