Visualize and edit phylogenetic trees

Forester

https://sites.google.com/site/cmzmasek/home/software/archaeopteryx

Download forester

→ check actual version

wget http://www.phyloxml.org/download/forester/forester_1050.jar

Start forester

requires Java version 8 or higher

# install "non-headless" Java 11 on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jre # (not "openjdk-11-jre-headless" )

java -version

openjdk version "11.0.4"

# run forester

java -cp /path/to/forester_1050.jar org.forester.archaeopteryx.Archaeopteryx

→ Java error: Assistive Technology not found

Open tree file

→ "File" → "Read tree from file..."

https://sites.google.com/site/cmzmasek/home/software/archaeopteryx