Jack Sullivan 

Updated Spring, 2009

Biology 545 - Theory and Practice of Phylogeny Estimation

Syllabus

Old Exam 1

Answers to Problem Set

Lab Readings

Lab Exercise 1

Lab 1 Lecture Notes

Data Set

Lab Exercise 2

Lab Exercise 3

Formatted Data Set

Lab Exercise 4

Lab Exercise 5

Lab Exercise 6

Lecture 1 - Introduction to Systematics & History of Phylogenetics

Lecture 2 - Phylogenetic Characters

Lecture 3 - Alignment

Lecture 4 - Introduction to Trees and Parsimony

Lecture 5 - Optimality Criteria: Maximum Likelihood & Minimum Evolution

Lecture 6 - Star Decomposition: Neighbor Joining

Lecture 7 - Parsimony Weighting

Lecture 8 - The Importance of Models

Lecture 9 - Models of DNA Sequence Evolution

Lecture 9B - Increasing Model Complexity

Lecture 10 - Model Selection

Lecture 11 - Support & Phylogenetic Uncertainty

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