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Biology 545 - Readings
January 22 - Felsenstein (2001). A perspective from an original advocate of statistical approaches.
Question for discussion: Why do you think statistical approaches have become dominant?
February 5 - Feng and Doolittle (1987) and Saitou and Nei (1987).
These papers introduced progressive alignments and neighbor joining, respectively.
March 4 - Here are two great papers. If you only have time to read one, read Mike Steel's paper.
Goldman (1993). A foundational paper in statistical consideration of models of sequence evolution.
Steel (2005). This paper addresses what we should be striving for with our models of sequence evolution.
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