                      SPREAD 
Spatial Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Evolutionary Dynamics 
                Version 1.0, 2011 
Filip Bielejec, Andrew Rambaut, Marc A. Suchard & Philippe Lemey

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h1. LICENSE
 
  This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
  published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
  of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
   This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   "GNU Lesser General Public License":http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html for more details.

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h1. PURPOSE
                            
SPREAD is a Java program supporting processing and visualizations of BEAST's phylogeographic models ("BEAST software":http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/Main_Page). 

Contains visualisations (templates), wrapped in a user friendly interface. Supported visualisations include embedded Processing applets and KML output for viewing in "Google Earth":http://www.google.com/earth or any other virtual globe software capable of reading the format.

A tutorial on using SPREAD is availiable "here":http://www.kuleuven.be/aidslab/phylogeography/tutorial/spread_tutorial.html

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h1. SUPPORT & LINKS

SPREAD: www.phylogeography.org/SPREAD
Processing libraries: http://processing.org/ 

Suggestions or report bugs:

<filip.bielejec@rega.kuleuven.be>








