%0 Journal Article %T PHYLOViZ: phylogenetic inference and data visualization for sequence based typing methods %A Alexandre P Francisco %A C¨˘tia Vaz %A Pedro T Monteiro %A Jos¨¦ Melo-Cristino %A M¨˘rio Ramirez %A JoŁżo Andr¨¦ CarriŁżo %J BMC Bioinformatics %D 2012 %I BioMed Central %R 10.1186/1471-2105-13-87 %X PHYLOViZ is platform independent Java software that allows the integrated analysis of sequence-based typing methods, including SNP data generated from whole genome sequence approaches, and associated epidemiological data. goeBURST and its Minimum Spanning Tree expansion are used for visualizing the possible evolutionary relationships between isolates. The results can be displayed as an annotated graph overlaying the query results of any other epidemiological data available.PHYLOViZ is a user-friendly software that allows the combined analysis of multiple data sources for microbial epidemiological and population studies. It is freely available at http://www.phyloviz.net webcite. %U http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/13/87/abstract