ivy-phylo 20110405

An interactive visual shell for phylogenetics

ivy is a lightweight library and an interactive visual programming environment for phylogenetics. It is built on a powerful foundation of open-source software components, including numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and IPython.

ivy emphasizes interactive, exploratory visualization of phylogenetic trees. For example:

#!/usr/bin/env ipython
from ivy.interactive import *

root = readtree("primates.newick")
fig = treefig(root)

Documentation and other resources

http://www.reelab.net/ivy

Installation

0. Install virtualenv.

1. Install ivy: pip install ivy