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Explorer for the Tree of Life    • J. Rosindell mail,
Affiliation: Division of Biology, Imperial College London,
Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom    • L. J.
Harmon      Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences and
Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST),
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America
• Published: October 16, 2012   • DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.1001406  We Can't See the Trees for the
Data      Escaping the Paper Paradigm  Much of the difficulty
with phylogenetic tree visualization (and with data
visualization more generally) is that we all too often constrain
ourselves to the “paper paradigm”—the practice of displaying
data in ways that are optimized for printing on paper. Many
applications fail to take full advantage of the freedom that a
computer display gives us over printed sheets; we read and write
documents and browse web pages that are constrained to be opti