Free Tree
Freeware
program for construction and bootstrap (and jackknife) analysis of
phylogenetic
trees from binary data (RAPD, RFLP, AFLP etc.)
Recent
windows
version Download
here (autoextracting archive containing 3 files: program, sample
data,
short manual)
Advantages:
Easy
setup
(none, just autoextrac and run)
Easy
operation
(paste your data from spredsheet and press run)
Performs
phenetic (UPGMA) and fylogenetic (NJ) analyses
Most
universal
resampling techniques (bootstrapping, jackknifing, OUT-jackknifing)
All
in one (for
better presentation of data you will probably need some tree-drawing
program,
for example Treeview available here)
Authors: Adam
Pavlicek and Jaroslav Flegr, Faculty
of Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech republic
More
information on the FreeTree pragram is given in:
Hampl
V., Pavlícek A., Flegr J. (2001) Construction and bootstrap
analysis of
DNA fingerprinting-based phylogenetic trees with a freeware program
FreeTree:
Application to trichomonad parasites. International Journal of
Systematic and
Evolutionary Microbiology, 51: 731-735.
The
paper is
available here
Another
useful
program for systematics and molecular systematics Treept (testing correlation between
phylogenetic relatedness
and phenetic similarity) is available here