Reading assignment:
We're starting to study phylogenetic trees. Chapter 7 in the Durbin book will probably be the most helpful for this lecture and the next. Mount, chapter 6, is also a good introduction.
There is a nice Trends in Genetics review that is an overview of phylogeny and some of the methods used.
Joseph Felsenstein contributed quite a bit to this field and his writings tend to be informative and fairly amusing; look around on the web for his site to see what he has to say about different methods (as well as the current state of computational biology).
We're starting to study phylogenetic trees. Chapter 7 in the Durbin book will probably be the most helpful for this lecture and the next. Mount, chapter 6, is also a good introduction.
There is a nice Trends in Genetics review that is an overview of phylogeny and some of the methods used.
Joseph Felsenstein contributed quite a bit to this field and his writings tend to be informative and fairly amusing; look around on the web for his site to see what he has to say about different methods (as well as the current state of computational biology).