diff --git a/Biobase/Taxonomy.hs b/Biobase/Taxonomy.hs
--- a/Biobase/Taxonomy.hs
+++ b/Biobase/Taxonomy.hs
@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@
                        -- Datatypes used to represent taxonomy data
                        module Biobase.Taxonomy.Types,
                        module Biobase.Taxonomy.Import,
-                       module Biobase.Taxonomy.Utils,
-                       module Biobase.Taxonomy.Visualization
+                       module Biobase.Taxonomy.Utils
                       ) where
 import Biobase.Taxonomy.Types
 import Biobase.Taxonomy.Import
 import Biobase.Taxonomy.Utils
-import Biobase.Taxonomy.Visualization
diff --git a/Biobase/Taxonomy/Visualization.hs b/Biobase/Taxonomy/Visualization.hs
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/Biobase/Taxonomy/Visualization.hs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
--- | Functions for  visualization of taxonomy data.
-module Biobase.Taxonomy.Visualization (  -- * Datatypes
-                       -- Datatypes used to represent taxonomy data
-                       module Biobase.Taxonomy.Types,
-                       -- * Visualization
-                       drawTaxonomyComparison,
-                       drawTaxonomy,
-                       writeTree,
-                       writeDotTree,
-                       writeJsonTree
-                      ) where
-import Prelude
-import Biobase.Taxonomy.Types
-import Data.Graph.Inductive.Tree
-import Data.Graph.Inductive.Basic
-import qualified Data.GraphViz as GV
-import qualified Data.GraphViz.Printing as GVP
-import qualified Data.GraphViz.Attributes.Colors as GVAC
-import qualified Data.GraphViz.Attributes.Complete as GVA
-import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as L
-import qualified Data.Aeson as AE
-import qualified Data.Text.Lazy as T
-
----------------------------------------
--- Visualisation functions
-
--- | Draw graph in dot format. Used in Ids2Tree tool.
-drawTaxonomy :: Bool -> Gr SimpleTaxon Double -> String
-drawTaxonomy withRank inputGraph = do
-  let nodeFormating = if withRank then nodeFormatWithRank else nodeFormatWithoutRank
-  let params = GV.nonClusteredParams {GV.isDirected       = True
-                       , GV.globalAttributes = [GV.GraphAttrs [GVA.Size (GVA.GSize (20 :: Double) (Just (20 :: Double)) False)]]
-                       , GV.isDotCluster     = const True
-                       --, GV.fmtNode = \ (_,l) -> [GV.textLabel (TL.pack (show (simpleRank l) ++ "\n" ++ T.unpack (simpleScientificName l)))]
-                       , GV.fmtNode = nodeFormating
-                       , GV.fmtEdge          = const []
-                       }
-  let dotFormat = GV.graphToDot params inputGraph
-  let dottext = GVP.renderDot $ GVP.toDot dotFormat
-  T.unpack dottext
-
-nodeFormatWithRank :: (t, SimpleTaxon) -> [GVA.Attribute]
-nodeFormatWithRank (_,l) = [GV.textLabel (T.concat [T.pack (show (simpleRank l)), T.pack ("\n") , simpleScientificName l])]
-
-nodeFormatWithoutRank :: (t, SimpleTaxon) -> [GVA.Attribute]
-nodeFormatWithoutRank (_,l) = [GV.textLabel (simpleScientificName l)]
-
--- | Draw tree comparison graph in dot format. Used in Ids2TreeCompare tool.
-drawTaxonomyComparison :: Bool -> (Int,Gr CompareTaxon Double) -> String
-drawTaxonomyComparison withRank (treeNumber,inputGraph) = do
-  let cList = makeColorList treeNumber
-  let nodeFormating = if withRank then (compareNodeFormatWithRank cList) else (compareNodeFormatWithoutRank cList)
-  let params = GV.nonClusteredParams {GV.isDirected = True
-                       , GV.globalAttributes = []
-                       , GV.isDotCluster = const True
-                       --, GV.fmtNode = \ (_,l) -> [GV.textLabel (TL.pack (show (compareRank l) ++ "\n" ++ B.unpack (compareScientificName l))), GV.style GV.wedged, GVA.Color (selectColors (inTree l) cList)]
-                       , GV.fmtNode = nodeFormating
-                       , GV.fmtEdge = const []
-                       }
-  let dotFormat = GV.graphToDot params (grev inputGraph)
-  let dottext = GVP.renderDot $ GVP.toDot dotFormat
-  T.unpack dottext
-
-compareNodeFormatWithRank :: [GVA.Color] -> (t, CompareTaxon) -> [GVA.Attribute]
-compareNodeFormatWithRank cList (_,l) = [GV.textLabel (T.concat [T.pack (show (compareRank l) ++ "\n"),compareScientificName l]), GV.style GV.wedged, GVA.Color (selectColors (inTree l) cList)]
-
-compareNodeFormatWithoutRank :: [GVA.Color] -> (t, CompareTaxon) -> [GVA.Attribute]
-compareNodeFormatWithoutRank cList (_,l) = [GV.textLabel (compareScientificName l), GV.style GV.wedged, GVA.Color (selectColors (inTree l) cList)]
-
--- | Colors from color list are selected according to in which of the compared trees the node is contained.
-selectColors :: [Int] -> [GVA.Color] -> GVAC.ColorList
-selectColors inTrees currentColorList = GVAC.toColorList (map (\i -> currentColorList !! i) inTrees)
-
--- | A color list is sampled from the spectrum according to how many trees are compared.
-makeColorList :: Int -> [GVA.Color]
-makeColorList treeNumber = cList
-  where cList = map (\i -> GVAC.HSV ((fromIntegral i/fromIntegral neededColors) * 0.708) 0.5 1.0) [0..neededColors]
-        neededColors = treeNumber - 1
-
--- | Write tree representation either as dot or json to provided file path
-writeTree :: String -> String -> Bool -> Gr SimpleTaxon Double -> IO ()
-writeTree requestedFormat outputDirectoryPath withRank inputGraph = do
-  case requestedFormat of
-    "dot" -> writeDotTree outputDirectoryPath withRank inputGraph
-    "json"-> writeJsonTree outputDirectoryPath inputGraph
-    _ -> writeDotTree outputDirectoryPath withRank inputGraph
-
--- | Write tree representation as dot to provided file path.
--- Graphviz tools like dot can be applied to the written .dot file to generate e.g. svg-format images.
-writeDotTree :: String -> Bool -> Gr SimpleTaxon Double -> IO ()
-writeDotTree outputDirectoryPath withRank inputGraph = do
-  let diagram = drawTaxonomy withRank (grev inputGraph)
-  writeFile (outputDirectoryPath ++ "taxonomy.dot") diagram
-
--- | Write tree representation as json to provided file path.
--- You can visualize the result for example with 3Djs.
-writeJsonTree :: String -> Gr SimpleTaxon Double -> IO ()
-writeJsonTree outputDirectoryPath inputGraph = do
-  let jsonOutput = AE.encode (grev inputGraph)
-  L.writeFile (outputDirectoryPath ++ "taxonomy.json") jsonOutput
diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 -*-change-log-*-
 
+2.1.0 [Florian Eggenhofer](mailto:egg@cs.uni-freiburg.de) 17. December 2019
+
+	* Moved visualisation code to own library
+
 2.0.0 [Florian Eggenhofer](mailto:egg@cs.uni-freiburg.de) 18. November 2019
 
 	* Changed to Biobase repository layout
diff --git a/Taxonomy.cabal b/Taxonomy.cabal
--- a/Taxonomy.cabal
+++ b/Taxonomy.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                Taxonomy
-version:             2.0.0
+version:             2.1.0
 synopsis:            Libary for parsing, processing and vizualization of taxonomy data
 description:         Haskell cabal Taxonomy libary contains tools, parsers, datastructures and visualisation
                      for the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Taxonomy datasources.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 category:            Bioinformatics
 build-type:          Simple
 cabal-version:       >=1.10.0
-Tested-With: GHC == 8.4.4, GHC == 8.6.5
+Tested-With: GHC == 8.4.4, GHC == 8.6.5, GHC == 8.8.1
 Extra-Source-Files:
         README.md ChangeLog.md
 
@@ -38,16 +38,15 @@
 
 source-repository this
   type:     git
-  location: https://github.com/eggzilla/Taxonomy/tree/v2.0.0
-  tag:      v2.0.0
+  location: https://github.com/eggzilla/Taxonomy/tree/v2.1.0
+  tag:      v2.1.0
 
 Library
   ghc-options:         -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind
   default-language:    Haskell2010
-  build-depends:       base >=4.5 && <5, parsec, either-unwrap, fgl>=5.5.4.0, text, graphviz>=2999.12.0.4, bytestring, aeson, vector
+  build-depends:       base >=4.5 && <5, parsec, either-unwrap, fgl>=5.5.4.0, text, bytestring, aeson, vector
   Hs-source-dirs:      .
   Exposed-modules:     Biobase.Taxonomy.Types
                        Biobase.Taxonomy.Import
-                       Biobase.Taxonomy.Visualization
                        Biobase.Taxonomy.Utils
                        Biobase.Taxonomy
