MrEnt: A drawing tool for phylogenetic trees

What is MrEnt?
 
MrEnt is a program for drawing high-quality, printable phylogenetic trees. It is a user-friendly software that recognizes Nexus tree files (like those generated by e.g. PAUP and MrBayes) and displays them in the most commonly used tree formats. Our goal was to produce a software to generate with no troubles all tree drawings for scientific publications directly from analysis outputs, without using any additional graphic editor.
 
Features
 
Reading of tree files in NEXUS format;
Tree displaying as rectangular cladogram, slanted cladogram or phylogram;
Full editing of taxon names, taxon comments, support values, branches;
Addition of other graphic elements (lines, shapes, text, brackets);
Tree drawing exported as Portable document format (PDF), Windows enhanced metafile (EMF), bitmap (BMP), or Portable network graphics (PNG).
 
System requirements and installation
 
MrEnt runs only on Windows platforms (currently it has been tested with Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP; please report any problem with other Windows versions).
If the .NET Framework 1.1 is not already installed on your computer, you must download it from the Microsoft homepage and install it (Get the .NET Framework 1.1). It may be easier if you go to the bottom of the download page and follow the link Get the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable. If you already have the .NET Framework version 1.0 you must update to the version 1.1.
Then unzip the MrEnt archive and save the files in your preferred folder: MrEnt is ready!
 
NB: the disk space required by MrEnt is small, about 3 MB, but you need 150 MB of free space to install the .NET Framework 1.1!
 
 
Citing MrEnt
 
If you find MrEnt useful and you include drawings made from it in a publication we would be grateful if you cite the program as:
 
Zuccon A. & Zuccon D. 2006. MrEnt v1.2. Program distributed by the authors. Department of Vertebrate Zoology & Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.
 
 
 
Download
 
Before downloading the software, read the License and the Disclaimer!
 
 
Authors
 
Alessandro Zuccon & Dario Zuccon
 
Department of Vertebrate Zoology & Molecular Systematics Laboratory
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm, Sweden
 
Comments, criticisms, suggestions and bug reports are all warmly welcome! You can send an email at dario.zuccon AT nrm.se.