Interesting workshop in Quantitative Cladistics organized by Pablo Goloboff and Claudia Szumik at Els Hostalets de Pierola, Barcelona (Spain). The workshop will cover the basics of parsimony analysis and character optimization, tree-searches, diagnosing and summarizing results efficiently, and measuring group supports.
The course will be informal, with extensive hands-on exercises which will help students get familiar with the main aspects of phylogenetic analysis using TNT. For each of the units in the workshop, there will be a lecture (one to two hours, depending on the topics), then switching to exercises illustrating the points just seen in the lecture. Switches between "lecture" and "hands-on" mode will be dynamic, depending on how students advance on the exercises.The workshop will make extensive use of TNT. There will also be a demonstration and some practice withGB->TNT, a program to create TNT matrices from GenBank data (in turn, GB->TNT requires installation of some alignment program, ideally Mafft or Muscle and possibly BioEdit to inspect alignments). ENJOY!
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