title: SplitsTree: analyzing and visualizing evolutionary data.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Real evolutionary data often contain a number of different and sometimes conflicting phylogenetic signals, and thus do not always clearly support a unique tree. To address this problem, Bandelt and Dress (Adv. Math., 92, 47-05, 1992) developed the method of split decomposition. For ideal data, this method gives rise to a tree, whereas less ideal data are represented by a tree-like network that may indicate evidence for different and conflicting phylogenies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  SplitsTree is an interactive program, for analyzing and visualizing evolutionary data, that implements this approach. It also supports a number of distances transformations, the computation of parsimony splits, spectral analysis and bootstrapping.
authors.affiliation: FSPM, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Huson
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D004275:DNA, Ribosomal