Papers providing general information

  • An overview of phylogeny reconstruction, by C. Randal Linder and T. Warnow (in press). This paper discusses phylogeny reconstruction from the perspective of a molecular systematist.
  • Postscript and PDF of the Tutorial on Phylogenetic Tree Estimation by J. Kim and T. Warnow. ISMB 1999. This paper primarily concerns statistical aspects of phylogeny reconstruction.
  • "Computational Methods in Phylogenetics," by Tandy Warnow. This is a powerpoint presentation of a three-hour tutorial presented at the CSB 2004 conference at Stanford. (PPT document).

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  • "Network (Reticulate) Evolution: Biology, Models, and Algorithms", by C.R. Linder, B.M.E. Moret, L. Nakhleh, and T. Warnow. This tutorial was presented at The Ninth Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2004). (PDF document).
  • Disk Covering Methods: improving the accuracy and speed of large-scale phylogenetic analyses by T. Warnow (in press).