Treefinder is a computer program for the likelihood-based reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from molecular sequences.
It was written by Gangolf Jobb, a former researcher at the University of Munich, Germany, and was originally released in 2004.
Result trees are displayed and can then be saved as a reconstruction report, which may serve as an input for further analysis, for example hypothesis testing.
[citation needed] On February 1, 2015, Jobb disallowed the use of Treefinder in the USA in order to make a political statement.
[2] The author again changed the license terms on October 1, 2015 to exclude use in Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Sweden, and Denmark - countries he claimed "host most of the non-european immigrants".