Phylogenetic Tree Maker
Better Understand Phylogenetic Relationships
Effectively visualize and identify the evolutionary relationships among various biological species.
Easy visual canvas to visualize phylogenetic relationships
Multiple phylogenetic tree templates to start quickly
PNG, SVG, JPEG, and PDF image export for sharing and printing
- Easy visual canvas to visualize phylogenetic relationships
- Multiple phylogenetic tree templates to start quickly
- PNG, SVG, JPEG, and PDF image export for sharing and printing
Over 10 Million people and 1000s of teams already use Creately
Create Detailed Phylogenetic Trees in Minutes
Multiple templates to study and analyze relationships of organisms.
Import images, vectors, and more to create informative phylogenetic trees.
Freehand drawing and highlights to sketch as you detail and analyze organisms.
Dynamic connectors to easily draw evolutionary connections.
Centralize Your Research Data
Add docs, attachments, links and more via the notes panel for easier analysis.
Infinite canvas that scales up to 1000s of items to gather research data around species.
Built-in presentation tools to organize information, share and present to others.
Collaborate in Real-Time, Anytime, Anywhere
Real-time cursors to work with students, teachers, or researchers on a shared canvas.
Comment with context and have discussions on the same canvas. Async!
Multiple access levels and roles to streamline managing, sharing, editing, and reviewing.
Expand on Phylogenetic Relationships
Export as PDF, SVG, PNG, and JPEG. Build multi-page docs and reports using frames and PDFs.
Share with your entire team or guests using an email or link invite.
Integrate with your favorite tools via Creately plugins for Google, Microsoft, Slack, Zoom and more.
What is a Phylogenetic Tree?
How to Collaborate Around a Phylogenetic Tree in Creately?
Share the workspace: Share the workspace with your team, students and colleagues. Invite them to edit the workspace via email or a link invite.
Brainstorm and discuss: Discuss the structure and content of the phylogenetic tree with the team. Hold dynamic discussions through Creately’s Microsoft Teams integration.
Collaborate to build the tree: Divide tasks among team members via the task panel and track progress. Use smart notifications to stay on top of changes and updates.
Use full version history: Use full version history to manage changes made by each member and to revert back if needed.
Visualize the tree: Visualize the tree in different perspectives to highlight features such as geographic distribution, ecological traits, or genetic traits. Include additional information to each element via the notes and data panels. Attach docs, links, references, images and more.
Publish or share: Download as a PDF, PNG, SVG or JPEG or get an embed link via the embed panel accessible through ‘share’. To share the workspace, simply add the team members' emails and invite them to collaborate.
How to Make a Phylogenetic Tree with Your Team?
Define the scope and research question
As the first step, discuss with the team on what questions the phylogenetic tree intends to answer. Also, agree and define what organisms or groups of organisms will be represented in the tree.
Start by inviting all team members to a shared workspace where you can collaborate. Use Creately’s whiteboard and free hand drawing capabilities to brainstorm, discuss, sketch and divide the work among team members. Assign access levels to team members as viewers, editors and reviewers as well.
Gather data
Collect and organize data on the organisms and their relationships. The gathered data should include, but not limited to, DNA or protein sequences and morphological characters.
Use the customisable table function and notes panel to organize and add more information.
Align sequences
Align the two DNA sequences that you’re going to compare. Ensure that you’re comparing two genes (or other sequences). The strategy is to find the alignment with the most matches and the fewest mismatches.
Bring all information to the shared Creately workspace to compare and group them together with your team.
Build the tree
Use a premade template or draw from scratch, to build the phylogenetic tree. Label with appropriate taxonomic names and relevant information. Creately helps to easily connect and visualize the branches with intelligent connectivity features. Calculate the differences between each pair of sequences once the tree is completed.
Import or drag-and-drop images to create informative phylogenetic trees with ease. If your team does not have images at hand, you can always use the built-in Google search to locate available images to include in the tree.
Evaluate and refine the tree
Once the assigned team members have finished creating the tree, get together with the entire team to evaluate. Compare the newly created tree to other existing ones and refine by incorporating additional data or adjusting the parameters and models.
Share and review
Request team members and peers to review and provide their feedback. Invite them to the workspace to leave comments using Creately’s in-line comments option or @mentions to highlight any missing information.
You can export the phylogenetic tree in JPEG, SVG, PNG, or PDF formats or share with colleagues for real-time feedback collection.
Cite and acknowledge
As the final touch, properly cite any data or work that was used when creating the tree. Make sure to acknowledge the contributions of each team member.
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FAQs About the Phylogenetic Tree Maker in Creately
Why do you need a phylogenetic tree?
Is Creately’s phylogenetic tree maker free?
Does Creately have icons or symbols I can use for my phylogenetic tree?
How can I import images to the canvas?
