TREEFINDER: a powerful graphical analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics

• Main Authors: von Haeseler Arndt, Jobb Gangolf, Strimmer Korbinian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2004-06-01
• Series: BMC Evolutionary Biology
• Online Access: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/4/18

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Most analysis programs for inferring molecular phylogenies are difficult to use, in particular for researchers with little programming experience.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>TREEFINDER is an easy-to-use integrative platform-independent analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics. In this paper the main features of TREEFINDER (version of April 2004) are described. TREEFINDER is written in ANSI C and Java and implements powerful statistical approaches for inferring gene tree and related analyzes. In addition, it provides a user-friendly graphical interface and a phylogenetic programming language.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>TREEFINDER is a versatile framework for analyzing phylogenetic data across different platforms that is suited both for exploratory as well as advanced studies.</p>