NAME

       showtree - View and/or convert phylogenetic trees in the terminal.

SYNOPSIS

       showtree [OPTIONS] [treefile]

DESCRIPTION

       View and/or convert phylogenetic trees in the terminal.

       treefile is the filename of the for the file containing trees in PRIME format.

OPTIONS

       --help Display help (this text).

       -V, --version
              Print version and exit

       -e, --show-edgetimes
              Show edge times

       -n, -show-nodetimes
              Show node times

       -b, --show-edgeweights
              Show edge weights (i.e. branch lengths)

       -x, --show-tot-edgetime
              Show total edge time instead of tree

       -y, --show-tot-edgeweight
              Show total edge weight instead of tree

       -c, --read-edge-times-after-colon
              Read edge times after colon

       -p, --convert-and-output-tree-in-prime-format
              Convert and output tree in PRIME format

       -i, --show-id
              Show ID (only valid together with -p)

       -S, --read-tree-from-stdin
              Read tree from STDIN (no <treefile> nor <tree> needed)

       -f, --format asciidrawing|prime|newick|simplenewick
              The output format. Default is asciidrawing.  Output formats:

              newick - convert and output tree in NEWICK format

              simplenewick  -  Simple newick format, no branch lengths. This also enables reading
              of unbalanced trees.

              prime - prime format

              asciidrawing - an ascii drawing

       -t, --tree-number
              Use the tree with this number. If not set all trees will be printed out.

       -t, --tree-number
              Use the tree with this number. If not set all trees will be printed out.

EXIT STATUS

       0      Successful program execution.

       1      Some error occurred

URL

       The prime-phylo home page: http://prime.sbc.su.se

SEE ALSO

       primeDTLSR(1),   primeDLRS(1),   primeGEM(1),   chainsaw(1),   reconcile(1),    reroot(1),
       tree2leafnames(1), treesize(1)