Change the color of branch according to the given category. If adjacent leaf nodes share identical category, all children branches of the LCA (last common ancestor) of these leaf nodes will be colored in one color according to this category.

Video tutorial

Layer data

View example tree and data

• Example data

One column of categories is needed. If you leave a cell blank, the color of corresponding leaf name will not be changed.

• TSV format

Node_IDs    Categories
EF151805    A
AY699794    B
AJ608641    B
JF937440    B
AJ744861    C
AJ564643    B
FN393747    C
AJ717393    B
MK238778    C
AJ575266    A
MT758060    A
MT760162    C
NR_025743    C
FM883672    C
HE985070    A
FR687202    C
KT253329    C
HQ326178    B
MT759893    C
KF309029    A
FM991866    B
MH197303    A
FR681897    C
MW309385    B
DQ112660    B
AJ575263    B
MK096443    A

Layer controlling attributes

color

• Color set

1 color: Click this button to choose a default color set.

• Custom color
  

1 switch: Whether to use custom color set.

All categories of that data column will be listed below followed by a color selector respectively. Click each color selector to select a color you like.

legend

See category branches legend