GfBS Workshop "Baumkonstruktion" - Outline/Requirements

TREE-PUZZLE GfBS-workshop-version available below (at the end of this page)

The outline of the morning workshop is as follows:

1)
Introductory lecture on tree-building and tree optimization methods. A number of problems will be described that might occur during phylogenetic analysis and how they are tried to be solved by different programs.
2)
In a second part the program SplitsTree and the underlying theory will be explained. Additionally common mistakes interpreting phylogenetic networks will be discussed.
3a)
Practical exercise performing quality assessment on different provided datasets using the TREE-PUZZLE software.
3b)
Exercise: Trees will be reconstructed and analyzed using the TREE-PUZZLE software (and possibly other methods from the PHYLIP package).
4)
Exercise: Phylogenetic networks will be constructed using SplitsTree from provided datasets and using TREE-PUZZLE.
Results from 3) and 4) will be briefly discussed. The attendants are free to additionally use own datasets, advice will be given as far as time allows.

Parts 2) and 3) might possibly be swapped.

Required Software:

Optional:

TREE-PUZZLE beta version

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