TREEFINDER: a powerful graphical analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics.
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.
Jobb
Gangolf
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Department of Statistics, University of Munich, Ludwigstr, 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. gangolf@treefinder.de
von Haeseler
Arndt
A
Strimmer
Korbinian
K
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
D004247:DNA