QUICK START

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Add colored objects/ shapes to the tree (next to the leaf labels)

Select the "Sample tree 1" from upload tree window to load the following tree.Here is tree in newick format:

(chicken,((mouse,rat),(chimp,human)));

Here we'll add a dataset called "color strips / colored shapes".
click the "color strips" icon on the "Annotation upload" tab:



copy and paste the following to the text area in the popup dialog box:

##color strips
!groups	a,b,c,d
!colors	blue,green,grey,red
!type	rect,circle,star,strip
!showlegends	1
human	red,green,blue,purple
chimp	purple,darkred,lightgreen,lightblue
mouse	lightblue,yellow
chicken	darkgreen,grey,pink,grey
rat	grey,orange,pink,orange