Bioinformatics: Molecular Phylogenetics New
The course will provide training for bench-based biologists to use molecular data to construct and interpret phylogenies, and test their hypotheses. Delegates will gain hands-on practice of using a variety of programs freely available online and commonly used in molecular studies, interspersed with some lectures.
Further information for this session is available here.
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This course is aimed at bench-based biologists with limited or no knowledge of the field of molecular evolution and with some experience of examining DNA/protein sequence data. Syllabus, Tools and Resources
- Basic computing skills
- Graduate level in Life Sciences
Number of sessions: 3
# | Date | Time | Venue | Trainers | |
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1 | Mon 16 Dec 2013 09:00 - 17:30 | 09:00 - 17:30 | Department of Genetics, Room G12 | map | Laura Emery, Sarah Parks |
2 | Tue 17 Dec 2013 09:00 - 17:30 | 09:00 - 17:30 | Department of Genetics, Room G12 | map | Nick Goldman, Asif Tamuri, Kevin Gori |
3 | Wed 18 Dec 2013 09:00 - 17:30 | 09:00 - 17:30 | Department of Genetics, Room G12 | map | Nick Goldman, Asif Tamuri, Laura Emery |
After this course you should be able to…
- Appreciate some advantages and limitations of alternative molecular analyses
- Use some freely available software to conduct molecular analyses
- Interpret analyses in their biological context
- Appreciate the importance of statistical rigour in molecular analyses
During this course you will learn about…
- Features of phylogenies and clade support
- Data interpretation:
- Methods of phylogenetic reconstruction: distance-based, maximum likelhodd, Bayesian (PHLIP, PhyML)
- Hypothesis testing and tree support: model comparison, non-parametric bootstrap, MCMC (ModelTest, PAML, MrBayes)
Presentations, demonstrations and practicals
3
A number of times per year
Booking / availability