Phylogenetics course and tutorial April 18th-21st April 2005

Aidan Budd, Toby Gibson and Carolin Kosiol

Usage guide to phylogenetics programmes used in these tutorials

Brief guide to commands used during the course

Day 1, 18th April: Introduction to phylogenetic trees and phylogenetic estimation algorithms

Day 2, 19th April: Amino acid substitution models

Day 3, 20th April: Estimating precision of phylogeny estimates

Day 4, 21st April: Preparing alignments for phylogenetic analysis

Links to phylogenetic software used in the course

Building and assessment of trees

PHYLIP

Including neighbor, protml, consense, seqboot

TREEPUZZLE

PHYML

PAML

Including codeml

MRBAYES

Visualiation of trees

TREEVIEW

NJPLOT

Overview (nearly all phylogeny programmes around)

T

CLUSTALX

SEAVIEW

GBLOCKS