Sumários

goeBURST algorithm

16 dezembro 2014, 12:30 João Pedro Carvalho

goeBURST algorithm (continuation) . The importance of metadata in phylogenetic inference: using goeBURST and PHYLOViZ software. How to evaluate different and novel phylogenetic methods. How to evaluate the robustness of the tree representation: the bootstrap method. Moving from trees to phylogenetic network methods: trees as a particular case of phylogenetic networks methods. Description of the Tree of Life Project: how to make a tree encompassing species from Eukaryota, Archaea and Bacteria. The future of the field and the importance of metadata visualisation. Felsenstein's phylogenetic software repository.
 


Molecular phylogenetic problem resolution

16 dezembro 2014, 09:30 João Pedro Carvalho

Molecular phylogenetic problem resolution on Maximum Parsimony, Hierarchical Clustering and the importance of Mutation and Recombination rates on the generation of diversity and  its impact on perceived phylogenetic distances.


Molecular phylogenetic problem resolution

15 dezembro 2014, 14:00 João Pedro Carvalho

Molecular phylogenetic problem resolution on Maximum Parsimony, Hierarchical Clustering and the importance of Mutation and Recombination rates on the generation of diversity and  its impact on perceived phylogenetic distances.


Models of DNA Evolution

15 dezembro 2014, 12:30 João Pedro Carvalho

Models of DNA Evolution: models improving upon Jukes Cantor model .  Algorithms for Phylogenetic tree construction: Hierarchical Clustering (UPGMA, Single Linkage and Complete Linkage) , Neighbour-Joining Algorithm, Maximum Parsimony and goeBURST.  Description of Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference methods. Strengths and limitations of the different algorithms 
 


Biclustering Gene Expression Data

12 dezembro 2014, 16:30 Sara Madeira

Biclustering versus Clustering.

Differents types of biclusters and their biological relevance.

Algorithmic approaches.