Education: Computational Phyloinformatics: A Course at NESCent

Submitted by Hilmar Lapp; posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2008

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LOCALE: Durham, NC (US)

DATES: July 24-August 4, 2008

Computational Phyloinformatics is a 10-day summer course sponsored by and held at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, North Carolina (USA) that aims to give students practical knowledge and hands-on skills in phyloinformatics. This course is designed for graduate students, postdocs, and researchers in phylogenetics interested in receiving practical, hands-on training in the use of Perl, Java, or R for phyloinformatics applications.

Students in all tracks will learn how to write basic phylogenetic or comparative analysis scripts, parse NEXUS files, traverse and compute over trees, and make practical use of phylogenetic software  libraries.  These skills will be learned in a biological context, touching on a diverse array of topics (depending on the track) such as alignment of large numbers of sequences, ancestral state reconstruction, testing for positive selection, etc.

INSTRUCTORS:

James Balhoff, Marguerite Butler, R. Todd Jobe, Hilmar Lapp, Darin London, David Maddison, Spencer Muse, Jeff Oliver, Brian O'Meara, William Piel, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Ryan Scherle, Todd Vision, Rutger Vos

Applications are due by April 15, 2008.

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