About iTOL
Versions
| Software: | v1.7 |
|---|---|
| Default tree: | Tree Of Life v1.0 (Ciccarelli FD, et al., Science.; 2006 Mar 3. 311(5765): 1283-7) |
| Original publication: | Letunic I and Bork P (2007) Bioinformatics 23(1):127-8 Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL): an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation (abstract, full article  ) |
Local installations and customization of iTOL
If you are interested in running a customized version of iTOL in your own organization or institution, please contact biobyte solutions (visit http://www.biobyte.de or email info@biobyte.de) for details. They provide the integration and customization of iTOL to fit your specific needs.
Recent changes and new features
- new dataset type: boxplot
- individual fileds in multi-value barchart datasets can be automatically aligned
- PhyloXML tree format supported for upload and export
- Automatic NCBI tree generator expanded with support for scientific names and subtrees
- color ranges and clade colors can be defined during upload
- heatmap legends displayed
- option to prevent overlap of color strips and gradients with other datasets
- batch upload and export
- new dataset type: heatmaps
- leaf labels can be aligned in both modes
- color ranges expandable to whole clades
- maximum bar and protein size increased to 5000 pixels
- mid-point rooting function
Known bugs and problems
iTOL requires Flash plugin version 7 or higher. For MS Windows users, we recommend version 8 or 9. You can install or upgrade you Flash plugin by visting Adobe's Flash pages. Our prefered and most heavily tested browser is Firefox, which we recommend.
iTOL's creates a very complex Flash object and can sometimes trigger bugs in the Flash player, causing a browser crash. Make sure you have the latest version of Flash installed to minimize such problems.
For unknown reasons, Flash player will sometimes (~1:50 chance) display the iTOL tree in low quality mode, even though it should be in high quality by default. It that happens, you can manually switch the mode by using the Flash player's right-click context menu.
Feedback and contact
We hope you find iTOL user-friendly and easy to use. However, we encourage everyone who:
- has problems using or understanding iTOL's functions
- cannot upload a custom tree or dataset
- finds a bug
- has an interesting tree for inclusion into iTOL's 'Other trees' page
to contact us. You can also use the following form to send quick feedback:
