move is part of the PHYLIP package

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move is an interactive parsimony program, inspired by Wayne Maddison and David Maddison's marvellous program MacClade, which is written for Apple Macintosh computers.

move reads in a data set which is prepared in almost the same format as one for the mixed method parsimony program MIX. It allows the user to choose an initial tree, and displays this tree on the screen. The user can look at different characters and the way their states are distributed on that tree, given the most parsimonious reconstruction of state changes for that particular tree. The user then can specify how the tree is to be rearraranged, rerooted or written out to a file.

By looking at different rearrangements of the tree the user can manually search for the most parsimonious tree, and can get a feel for how different characters are affected by changes in the tree topology.

References:
Felsenstein, J. 1993. PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package) version 3.5c. Distributed by the author. Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle.

Felsenstein, J. 1989. PHYLIP -- Phylogeny Inference Package (Version 3.2). Cladistics 5: 164-166.