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Adding documentation section on iplotx

Open iosonofabio opened this issue 2 months ago • 4 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I developed iplotx to visualise any tree or network in Python. It supports dendropy and I would like your users to be aware of this useful functionality:

https://iplotx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to open a PR to add a paragraph to the dendropy documentation mentioning iplotx.

Describe alternatives you've considered iplotx supports many other libraries that, similar to dendropy, focus on analytics rather than visualisation. This complements current functions in dendropy which enable ASCII representations and such.

Additional context https://iplotx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gallery/tree/plot_dendropy.html#sphx-glr-gallery-tree-plot-dendropy-py

iosonofabio avatar Oct 09 '25 04:10 iosonofabio

Hi @iosonofabio,

Thanks for getting in touch! Could clarify whether your visualization package is specifically integrated with dendropy, or whether e.g., data would be passed to your package through a serialized format (newick, etc.)?

mmore500 avatar Oct 10 '25 00:10 mmore500

Thank you for the quick reply!

Specifically integrated, it ingests the dendropy.Tree live object with no serialization.

iosonofabio avatar Oct 10 '25 01:10 iosonofabio

I see!

I think the best way to do this would be having a one, two, or 3-ish sentence description with a link to the home page of your library or documentation for the actual step-by-step instructions. That way, API changes etc in your library won’t make step-by-step content in the dendropy docs stale.

Thanks for volunteering a contribution 👍

mmore500 avatar Oct 10 '25 01:10 mmore500

The API is stable already, esp. as far as simple examples are concerned, but sure I'll do that

iosonofabio avatar Oct 10 '25 01:10 iosonofabio