About Treemble
Treemble was developed by John Allard as a member of the Kumar Lab within the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine at Temple University.
Treemble was developed to make phylogenetic data more accessible and reusable. In modern biology, tree diagrams are everywhere, but most exist only as static images in figures. Without Newick files, these trees are locked away from reproducibility, meta-analysis, and comparative work. Treemble provides a practical solution: a guided, visual tool that lets users recover tree topologies from images and export them in a usable format for further scientific investigation.
About the Creator:
I’m a PhD candidate in Bioinformatics at Temple University. My research focuses on developing methods to apply AI and machine learning to comparative genomics, with a focus on understanding the genetic basis of traits that evolve convergently. My particular interest is in leveraging evolutionary comparative methods to understand the biology of extreme longevity, which has convergently evolved many times in the animal kingdom.