Programmatically create grapetree visualizations

[crarlus]

Hi,
thanks for grapetree, we use it a lot by uploading a mstree and metadata to a local grapetree instance in the browser.

However I wonder whether it is possible to create the grapetree visualizions (i.e. the json file) programmatically from the command line?

For instance, is there any such option as
grapetree --json --treefile mstree.nwk --meta metadata.tsv > grapetree_viz.json
?

This would be really helpful for updating the visualization whenever new data is available.

[eam12]

I agree. This type of command would be very useful! As great as the interactive program is, it can be laborious when I have to generate multiple MSTs with different subsets of data, node colors, etc.

[HBrendy]

I agree, too. Another nice feature would be the preloading of a json file before launching the local browser instance.