Computational Molecular Evolution: Wellcome Trust Advanced Course

General info

Date 

11 Apr 2011 - 20 Apr 2011 

Location

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK

Website

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Cour...

Keywords

Phylogenetics, Molecular Evolution, Alignments, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Population Genetics, Model Testing, Maximum Likelihood, Bayesian

Organiser

Wellcome Trust

Contact(s)

Aidan Budd

Description

Course summary:
This Wellcome Trust Advanced Course aims to provide researchers with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to carry out molecular evolutionary analysis on their own data, as well as on data drawn from sequence databases. The course will combine basic assumptions and ideas fundamental to the field with discussion of cutting-edge methodologies, and is therefore relevant to researchers with a range of different experience levels.

This course is essentially the same as that which was run successfully in Hinxton in 2009 and in Crete in 2010 (see abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/CoME).

Programme:

• interpretation of molecular phylogenetic trees and sequence alignments
• genomics resources, sequence searching and and sequence alignments
• phylogeny reconstruction and models
• hypothesis testing in phylogenetics
• coalescent model and inference from population data