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A Practical Guide to Phylogenetics for Nonexperts

A Practical Guide to Phylogenetics for Nonexperts

DOI:
10.3791/50975-v

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12:00 min

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February 05, 2014

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1Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for Neuroscience,The George Washington University

Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 00:59Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST): Online Interface
  • 01:57BLAST: Local Executables for Windows
  • 03:52BLAST: Local Executables for Macs
  • 05:54Generating Multiple Sequence Alignments
  • 06:50Determining Best-fit Models of Evolution
  • 07:24Inferring Sequence Based Phylogenies by Maximum Likelihood or Bayesian Inference
  • 08:25Visualizing Phylogenies
  • 08:56Results: Similarity Searches, Alignments, Determining Best-fit Models, and Reconstructing Phylogenetic Trees
  • 11:29Conclusion

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Here we describe a step-by-step pipeline for generating reliable phylogenies from nucleotide or amino acid sequence datasets. This guide aims to serve researchers or students new to phylogenetic analysis. 

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PhylogeneticsPhylogenetic AnalysisSequence AlignmentEvolutionary ModelsMaximum LikelihoodBayesian InferencePhylogenetic Tree VisualizationBioinformatics ToolsPractical GuideNonexpert Researchers

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