Making beautiful phylogenetic trees with metadata

[musta1234]

Hello all,

I need ideas on what tools to use to generate publication quality graphics of phylogenetic tree with a table of strain data. I spent a long hard time (18 months +) working on a project comparing SNP phylogenetic trees with traditional typing methods of bacterial strains and it is finally time to produce figure(s) worthy of the effort it took to generate the data.

Any details and specifics will be welcome. I posted a number of example figures from the literature for guide.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2821690/figure/F2/

Thanks

[cliffbeall]

iTOL makes some pretty trees that also communicate data well.

[musta1234]

Thanks cliffbeall, iTOL does look very promising, I will surely give it a try ... any other suggestions welcome