Archaeopteryx is an interactive

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program, written in

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, for viewing, editing, and analyzing

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s. This type of program can be used for a variety of

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of molecular data sets, but is particularly designed for

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. Besides tree description formats with limited expressiveness (such as Newick/New Hamphshire, Nexus), it also implements the

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format. Archaeopteryx is the successor to Java program ''A Tree Viewer'' (ATV).

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