Phylogenomics Symposium and Software School
Co-sponsored by the University of Texas and the Society for Systematic Biology
Co-located with
Evolution 2014
Raleigh Convention Center, NC
June 19 and 20, 2014
This symposium and workshop is co-sponsored by the Society for
Systematic Biologists (SSB) and the National Science Foundation through
grant DEB 0733029 to the University of Texas, see
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~tandy/ATOL-MSA.html.
Symposium Overview (PPTX)
The
Symposium (June 19) will
feature talks on
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Tandy Warnow:
New methods for
estimating very large multiple
sequence alignments and trees with up to 1,000,000
sequences,
(PPTX)
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Siavash Mirarab:
New methods for
estimating species trees
in the presence of gene
tree incongruence due
to incomplete lineage sorting, and
the Avian Phylogenomics Project
and
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Luay Nakhleh:
New methods for
estimating phylogenetic networks in the
presence of gene tree incongruence due to
horizontal gene transfer, hybrid speciation,
and incomplete lineage sorting,
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Jim Leebens-Mack:
Phylogenomic analyses
and One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Project (OneKP), and
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Nam Nguyen:
Taxonomic Identification of Metagenomic Data
Click
here for the schedule.
The
Software School
on June 20, 2014, will provide hands-on
training
in many new software tools,
including
tutorials from the symposium. The current list includes
- Multiple sequence alignment methods (or
co-estimation of alignments and trees), including
SATé, PASTA,
BAli-Phy,
and
UPP
- Methods for estimating species trees
and networks
from multiple gene trees, including
MulRF, Phylonet, PhylDOG, and ASTRAL
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Phylogenetic placement
of sequences into an existing tree
and alignment
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Taxonomic identification and phylogenetic profiling of metagenomic data
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HMMER, a suite of tools for building and using Hidden Markov Models
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GARLI, maximum likelihood method for phylogenetic tree estimation
Please contact Tandy Warnow (tandy@cs.utexas.edu) for more
information.
Registration is closed - more than 240 people
have already registered.
A number of travel awards (supported
by NSF grant DEB 0733029) of up to $250 were provided to
students, postdocs, and assistant professors.
Applications were due by April 1, 2014, and
awards have been announced.