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Activity Number: 306
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Graphics
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Title: PhyViz: Phylogenetic Visualization of Genealogical Information in R
Author(s): Lindsay Rutter* and Dianne Cook and Susan Ruth VanderPlas
Companies: Iowa State University and Iowa State University and Iowa State University
Keywords: phylogeny ; bioinformatics ; genealogy ; graphics
Abstract:

This paper introduces phyViz, a developing R package that provides tools for searching through genealogical data, generating basic statistics on their graphical structures using parent and child connections, and displaying the results. It is possible to draw the genealogy in relation to additional variables, such as development year, and to determine and display the shortest path distances between genetic lines. Production of pairwise distance matrices and phylogenetic diagrams constrained on generation are also available in the visualization toolkit. The software is being tested on datasets with milestone cultivars of soybean and barley varieties, as well as on data from the Mathematics Genealogy Project, a database of the academic genealogy of mathematicians.


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