International Conference on Microbial Genomes 2005 Phylogenetics Workshop

Supported by The Institute for Genome Research and Genome Atlantic
April 13-16, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Workshop materials

David Bryant, McGill University: Supertrees and SuperNets

Outline

T. Martin Embley, University of Newcastle: Phylogenomic Analyses to Detect Prokaryote to Eukaryotes HGT

Slides

Useful links:
PyPhy (phylogenomic tools to make all trees from all genes in a genome)
P4 (likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetics with heterogeneous models)
ClustalX (graphical multiple alignment)
Gblocks (selection of conserved blocks from multiple alignments)
MrBayes (Bayesian inference of phylogeny)
FastME (fast distance-based phylogenetic trees)

Robert L. Charlebois, NeuroGadgets Inc. and Genome Atlantic: Genomic phylogenies based on normalized BLASTP scores

References and further information

Useful links:
NeuroGadgets Inc. Bioinformatics Web Service

Matthew Spencer, Dalhousie University: Phylogenies based on gene content

Outline
Slides
Detailed notes

Useful links:
PAUP* (phylogenetic software)
Phylip (phylogenetic software)
SplitsTree (phylogenetic software)
SHOT (Shared Ortholog and gene order Tree reconstruction tool)
GeneContent 1.0.2 (phylogenetic software for gene content data)
COG (database, Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins)

Elisabeth R. M. Tillier, University of Toronto: Dependency and Co-dependency: Predicting amino acid interactions within and between proteins using co-variation

Outline

Useful links:
dependency paper and software
Tillier lab

Main workshop site