Microreact
  • Introduction
  • Introductory Videos
  • About Microreact
    • Privacy and Terms Of Service
    • Open source software used by Microreact
    • Change Log
  • Instructions
    • Navigating the site
      • Managing Projects
    • Navigating within a project
      • History sidebar
      • Selection sidebar
      • Views Sidebar
    • Creating a Project
      • Supported File Formats
      • Metadata Data
      • Tree Data
      • Map Data
      • Timeline Data
      • Network Data
      • Matrix Data
    • Adding and Editing Panels
      • Data Table
      • Map
      • Timeline
      • Tree
      • Network
      • Data-slicer
      • Chart overview
        • Area Chart
        • Line Chart
        • Bar Chart
        • Circle, Tick, Point Charts
        • Custom charts
        • Pie Chart
        • Multi-variable Chart
        • Heatmap
      • Note Panel
      • Matrix
    • Selecting and Filtering Data
    • Labels, Colours, and Shapes
    • Saving and version control
    • Access Control and Project Sharing
      • Download Project Files
      • URL control options
    • Tips & FAQ
      • How to Link Microreact projects to Google Sheets
  • API
    • API Access Tokens
    • Creating Projects via API
    • Updating Projects via API
    • Deleting Projects via API
    • Sharing Projects via API
    • Migrating to the new API
  • Feedback
    • Contact the Microreact team
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  • Data / Metadata File Formats
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  • Network File Formats
  • Geographical Features
  • .microreact files

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Supported File Formats

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Required Files

Only a data file is required for creating projects. All other files are optional.

Data / Metadata File Formats

  • (.csv)

  • (.tsv)

  • Microsoft (.xlsx) or (.xls)

  • (.ods)

  • (.dbf)

  • Google Sheets (learn )

Note that .txt is not a supported file type. .txt files must be converted to a supported file type before upload. (TIP: In some cases, this is as simple as changing the extension on your file.)

Tree File Formats

  • (.nwk, .newick, .tre, .nhx, .tree, or .treefile)

  • (.nex or .nexus)

Network File Formats

  • (.dot, .gv)

Geographical Features

.microreact files

(.geojson or .geo.json)

(.microreact)

Comma-separated values
Tab-separated values
Excel Office Open XML
Excel Spreadsheet
OpenDocument Spreadsheet
dBase database
how to link Microreact to GoogleSheets
Newick format
Nexus format
DOT graph description language
GeoJSON
A previously saved microreact project