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#458Building Trees - Phylogenetics I
 
Description:
This lecture is part of a five-part series on Phylogenetics presented by the NIAID Bioinformatics and Scientific IT Program. This course will cover:

  • What is a tree/phylogeny?
  • Distance methods for tree building
  • Optimality criterion methods for tree building: Parsimony
  • Input file formats
  • Measuring tree reliability: Bootstrapping

Please click on the following links to view and/or register for the other lectures.

Phylogenetics: Introduction and Sequence Assembly

Homology Searching and Sequence Alignment

Annotating Our Sequences

Building Trees - Phylogenetics II



 
Who should attend:
NIH staff who will be performing computer analysis of biological sequence data. Lectures assume no prior experience with specific software packages but you should know your way around a computer. Attendees should be familiar with basic concepts of genetics and evolutionary biology.
 
Instructor(s):
Dr. Kurt Wollenberg, NIAID OCICB Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB)
 
Time Required:
2 hours
 
Sections Available:
-- Concluded -- 458-09F October 30 9:00 - 11:00 Building 12A, Room B51
 
NOTE: Although this course has already taken place, we'll put you on a waiting list for the next available session.

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