@article{fdi:010063158,
  title = {{C}omp{P}hy : a web-based collaborative platform for comparing phylogenies},
  author = {{F}iorini, {N}. and {L}efort, {V}. and {C}hevenet, {F}ran{\c{c}}ois and {B}erry, {V}. and {C}hifolleau, {A}. {M}. {A}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{B}ackground: {C}ollaborative tools are of great help in conducting projects involving distant workers. {R}ecent web technologies have helped to build such tools for jointly editing office documents and scientific data, yet none are available for handling phylogenies. {T}hough a large number of studies and projects in evolutionary biology and systematics involve collaborations between scientists of different institutes, current tree comparison visualization software and websites are directed toward single-user access. {M}oreover, tree comparison functionalities are dispersed between different software that mainly focus on high level single tree visualization but to the detriment of basic tree comparison features. {R}esults: {T}he web platform presented here, named {C}omp{P}hy, intends to fill this gap by allowing collaborative work on phylogenies and by gathering simple advanced tools dedicated to tree comparison. {I}t offers functionalities for tree edition, tree comparison, supertree inference and data management in a collaborative environment. {T}he latter aspect is a specific feature of the platform, allowing people located in different places to work together at the same time on a common project. {C}omp{P}hy thus proposes shared tree visualization, both synchronous and asynchronous tree manipulation, data exchange/storage, as well as facilities to keep track of the progress of analyses in working sessions. {S}pecific advanced comparison tools are also available, such as consensus and supertree inference, or automated branch swaps of compared trees. {A}s projects can be readily created and shared, {C}omp{P}hy is also a tool that can be used easily to interact with students in a educational setting, either in the classroom or for assignments. {C}onclusions: {C}omp{P}hy is the first web platform devoted to the comparison of phylogenetic trees allowing real-time distant collaboration on a phylogenetic/phylogenomic project. {T}his application can be accessed freely with a recent browser at the following page of the {ATGC} bioinformatics platform: http://www.atgc-montpellier.fr/compphy/.},
  keywords = {{E}volutionary trees ; {T}ree comparison ; {O}nline resource ; {R}eal-time collaboration},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{B}mc {E}volutionary {B}iology},
  volume = {14},
  numero = {},
  pages = {art. 253 [9 p.]},
  ISSN = {1471-2148},
  year = {2014},
  DOI = {10.1186/s12862-014-0253-5},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010063158},
}