Computational Phylogenetics: An Introduction to Designing Methods for Phylogeny Estimation

✍ Scribed by Tandy Warnow

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Contents
Preface
Glossary
Notation
Part I. Basic Techniques
1. Brief Introduction to Phylogenetic Estimation
2. Trees
3. Constructing Trees from True Subtrees
4. Constructing Trees from Qualitative Characters
5. Distance-based Tree Estimation Methods
6. Consensus and Agreement Trees
7. Supertrees
Part II. Molecular Phylogenetics
8. Statistical Gene Tree Estimation Methods
9. Multiple Sequence Alignment
10. Phylogenomics: Constructing Species Phylogenies from Multi-Locus Data
11. Designing Methods for Large-Scale Phylogeny Estimation
Appendix A. Primer on Biological Data and Evolution
Appendix B. Algorithm Design and Analysis
Appendix C. Guidelines for Writing Papers About Computational Methods
Appendix D. Projects
References
Index
Errata