‘ggtree’ extends the ‘ggplot2’ plotting system which implemented the grammar of graphics. ‘ggtree’ is designed for visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees and other tree-like structures with their annotation data.

Guangchuang YU

School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University

https://yulab-smu.top

If you use ggtree in published research, please cite the most appropriate paper(s) from this list:

1. S Xu, L Li, X Luo, M Chen, W Tang, L Zhan, Z Dai, TT. Lam, Y Guan, G Yu. Ggtree: A serialized data object for visualization of a phylogenetic tree and annotation data. iMeta, 2022, 1(4):e56. doi: 10.1002/imt2.56
2. G Yu. Data Integration, Manipulation and Visualization of Phylogenetic Treess (1st edition). Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2022. doi: 10.1201/9781003279242
3. G Yu. Using ggtree to visualize data on tree-like structures. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics, 2020, 69:e96. doi: 10.1002/cpbi.96
   • Source code and data to reproduce figures in the article
4. G Yu^*, TTY Lam, H Zhu, Y Guan^*. Two methods for mapping and visualizing associated data on phylogeny using ggtree. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2018, 35(2):3041-3043. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msy194
   • Source code to produce Supplementary Material
5. G Yu, DK Smith, H Zhu, Y Guan, TTY Lam^*. ggtree: an R package for visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees with their covariates and other associated data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2017, 8(1):28-36. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12628

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