title: TREEFINDER: a powerful graphical analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Most analysis programs for inferring molecular phylogenies are difficult to use, in particular for researchers with little programming experience.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  TREEFINDER is a versatile framework for analyzing phylogenetic data across different platforms that is suited both for exploratory as well as advanced studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Munich, Ludwigstr, 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. gangolf@treefinder.de
authors.forename: Gangolf
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jobb
authors.forename: Arndt
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: von Haeseler
authors.forename: Korbinian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Strimmer
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003196:Computer Graphics / Q000639:trends*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D004247:DNA