FigTree is designed as a graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees.
Edit By BS Editor: FigTree is designed as a graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees and as a program for producing publication-ready figures. As with most of my programs, it was written for my own needs so may not be as polished and feature-complete as a commercial program. In particular it is designed to display summarized and annotated trees produced by BEAST.

Features added in v1.3:

* Added a Background colouring option to the Appearance panel so the colour under each clade can be controlled by an attribute.
* Added a Color by option to tip, node and branch labels so the colour of the labels can be controlled by an attribute.
* Restored a Export to PDF option in the File menu. This uses a different library for creating PDFs from the Graphics export and doesnt require any settings (it should produce a PDF that matches the screen image).
* Implemented a QuickLook plugin for Mac OS X. This allows you to view a tree simply by pressing the space bar in Finder (will also automatically produce thumbnails). See readme in folder for installation instructions.

Bugs fixed:

* Re-introduced the graphic export formats that were inadvertently omitted in the previous version.
* Node bar panel now shows available attributes to display (bug introduced in previous version).

Bugs fixed in v1.3

* Fixed an issue with branch attributes not being loaded from a Nexus file.
* The tree panel now has Focus when the window opens which allows direct copy/pasting of tree files.
* New attributes are available in the Find panel.
* Annotation types being defined in the dialog Box were not being created. you can free download FigTree for Linux 1.3.1 now.