Has anyone used ChromaClade to visualize amino acid sequence data and phylogenies?

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Brian Thomas Foley

I have not tried ChromaClade yet, but it looks nice. I have done the same thing, coloring branches based on amino acids at sites in the alignment, using other methods, and it can be quite useful. Thanks for letting us know about this new tool.

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Brian Thomas Foley, would you mind sharing some of the tools you've employed to visualize amino acid mutations on a phylogenetic tree? I am having trouble running ChromaClade