GN 756/ST 756 (Computational Molecular Evolution)

Instructors: William Atchley and Jeff Thorne

Monday and Wednesday: 3 P.M. - 4:15 P.M.

Riddick 339

(This page will mainly contain notes etc. for the material that Jeff Thorne's lectures cover.)

Tentative Lecture Schedule

Lecture Notes 8/19/09 [Introduction]
Lecture Notes 9/21/09 [Parsimony]

Lecture Notes 10/12/09 [Topology Searching]

Lecture Notes 10/14/09 [Introduction to Models of Sequence Evolution]

Lecture Notes 10/16/09 [Distance-Based Phylogeny Inference]

Lecture Notes 10/19/09 [Basic Maximum Likelihood Phylogeny Inference]

Lecture Notes 10/21/09 [More Realistic Models of Sequence Evolution]

Lecture Notes 10/26/09 and 10/28/09 [Bayesian Phylogeny Inference]

Lecture Notes 11/4/09 [some notes on model comparison]

Lecture Notes 11/2/09 and 11/4/09 [Introduction to the Coalescent]

Lecture Notes 11/11/09 and 11/16/09 [Divergence Time Estimation]

Basic Probability Review