README

                            SPREAD

 
  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 for more details.
 
 
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                            PURPOSE
                            
S.P.R.E.A.D. is a Java program supporting processing and visualizations of BEAST's 
phylogeographic models. Contains visualisations (templates), wrapped in a user 
friendly interface. Supported visualisations include embedded Processing applets 
and KML output for viewing in Google Earth or any other virtual globe software 
capable of reading the format.

BEAST software: http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/Main_Page


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                            DOWNLOAD
                            
Compiled version can be downloaded from:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5169517/spread.jar
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                            COMPILING

Depends on the following libraries:

jebl.jar  
org.boehn.kmlframework_20090320.jar
core.jar
colt.jar
ColorPicker.jar
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                              TODO
* Processing applets
   - We could draw the lines along great circle arcs or rhumb lines, this would require 
     getting the code in kml generator class to work with processing
* TimeSlicer template
  - give the concurrent implementation of AnalyzeTree another try. This might        
    be achieveable with ConcurrentHashMap class  
  - Polygons should also be easily executed in parallel (read only operation),
    the problem is in getting the style id's right