TCSBU - A TCS NETWORK BEAUTIFIER

tcsBU was developed to allow the production of publication-ready networks resulting from TCS analysis without too much effort. Using a modern browser, thus independently from any operating-system, users are exposed to an intuitive user-interface (UI) through which they can edit the network layout, and classify haplotypes (for example, according to sampling locations or dates), which are then displayed as pie-chart like haplogroups within the network. Groups can be classified using colors, patterns or a combination of both. The final network can be saved as a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard, which can be directly embedded in some word processors (e.g. LibreOffice, OpenOffice), or edited and exported to other type of graphic format using any modern vector manipulation program, such as Inkscape or Adobe CC Illustrator®.

[Group Leader: Paulo Alexandrino, Ecology and Evolution of Aquatic Organisms]

Image credits: António Múrias dos Santos