RETRACTED ARTICLE: TREEFINDER: a powerful graphical analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics

TLDR

Existing phylogenetic inference tools are often difficult to use, especially for researchers with little programming experience. The paper introduces TREEFINDER, an easy‑to‑use, platform‑independent environment for molecular phylogenetics, and describes its main features. TREEFINDER, written in ANSI C and Java, offers powerful statistical methods, a graphical interface, and a phylogenetic programming language, making it a versatile, platform‑independent framework for both exploratory and advanced phylogenetic analyses.

Abstract

Most analysis programs for inferring molecular phylogenies are difficult to use, in particular for researchers with little programming experience. 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. TREEFINDER is a versatile framework for analyzing phylogenetic data across different platforms that is suited both for exploratory as well as advanced studies.