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Daniel H. Huson

Professor of Algorithms in Bioinformatics
University of Tübingen
Scientific Software Systems • Bioinformatics • Visualization

Software Systems

Development of interactive scientific software systems for bioinformatics, phylogenetics, metagenomics, and scientific visualization.

MEGAN

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Interactive platform for the analysis and exploration of microbiome and metagenome sequencing data.

Features include taxonomic and functional analysis, comparison of datasets, long-read analysis, interactive visualization, and scalable data exploration.

SplitsTree

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Interactive analysis and visualization of phylogenetic trees and networks.

Includes NeighborNet, consensus networks, rooted phylogenetic networks, tanglegrams, and touch-based iPad support.

PhyloSketch

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Touch-based system for drawing, editing, capturing, and visualizing phylogenetic trees and networks.

Designed for iPad and desktop environments using modern JavaFX and mobile deployment workflows.

CatReNet

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Visualization and analysis platform for catalytic reaction networks and autocatalytic systems.

Designed for interactive exploration of chemical and biological reaction systems.

Tegula

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Interactive visualization and exploration system for periodic tilings of the plane, sphere, and hyperbolic plane.

Tegula allows exploration of a large database of combinatorial tilings using modern JavaFX-based visualization systems.

Related publication: Tegula – exploring a galaxy of two-dimensional periodic tilings .

Scientific Mobile Applications

Development of cross-platform scientific applications for desktop, iPad, and iPhone environments.

Includes deployment pipelines, App Store workflows, mobile scientific visualization, and touch-based interaction systems.