forester - a framework for working with phylogenetic trees
Version 1.3 (November 2000)
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Washington University School of Medicine
and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
All rights reserved
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o About this software.
  forester is a Java framework for working with annotated, large,
  and polytomous (=multifurcated) phylogenetic trees. In particular,
  it is a toolkit for phylogenomics. It allows nodes and
  branches to be annotated with various data fields.
  (Such as information whether a node represents a duplication
  or a speciation, as opposed to just names, branch lengths
  and bootstrap values.) 

  This distribution contains four packages.
  
  1. "forester.tree" contains the basic datastructures
     for dealing with phylogenetic trees.
  2. "forester.atv" contains classes to display trees in
     JApplets and applications (ATV = A Tree Viewer).
     Requires Java 1.1.x plus Swing, or Java 1.2 or greater
  3. "forester.atv_awt" contains classes to display trees
     in Applets and applications (ATV = A Tree Viewer).
     Requires Java 1.1.x or greater. 
  4. "forester.tools" contains various tools.
     Requires Java 1.2 or greater.
  5. "forester.datastructures" contains additional
     datastructures.


o API specification for forester.
  http://www.genetics.wustl.edu/eddy/atv/forester_API_specification/index.html
  Or point your browser to the file "index.html" in the
  directory "forester_API_specification" which is part of the
  distribution.


o Documentation for ATV.
  PDF:     "atv_documentation.pdf"
  MS Word: "atv_documentation.doc"


o License for forester.
  forester is under the BSD license.
  See the file LICENSE.txt

  
o Getting forester.
  ftp://ftp.genetics.wustl.edu/pub/eddy/software/
  http://www.genetics.wustl.edu/eddy/atv/


o Installing ATV.
  See the file INSTALL_ATV.txt for instructions.

  
o Reporting bugs, comments, suggestions, ...
  Please email me at: zmasek@genetics.wustl.edu
  Thanx!  


Christian Zmasek

