Advanced Phylogeographic Visualization
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EvoLaps is a user-friendly web application designed to visualize the spatial and temporal spread of pathogens. It takes as entry an annotated tree, such as a maximum clade credibility tree obtained through continuous phylogeographic inference. By following a 'Top-Down' reading of a tree from the root to its leaves recursively, transitions (latitude/longitude changes from a node to its children) are represented on a cartographic background using graphical paths. The complete set of paths forms the phylogeographic scenario. A raw reading of these transitions produces complex scenarios, and EvoLaps helps to analyze them with: • enhanced path display using multiple graphical variables with time-dependent gradients (line thickness, curvature, opacity, color) • cross-highlighting and selection capabilities between the phylogeographic scenario and the phylogenetic tree • production of specific spatio-temporal scales and synthetic views through dynamic and iterative clustering of localities into spatial clusters • animation of the phylogeographic scenario using tree brushing, which can be done manually or automatically, gradually over time or at specific time intervals, and for the entire tree or a specific clade • an evolving library of additional tools (eg migration distance curves, ancestral character states computed from third-party discrete variables). Contact: francois.chevenet@ird.fr