A phylogenetic tree is a diagram that depicts the relationships
among a set of taxa or genes, and is a critical tool for many analyses of evolutionary history. This course covers the basic methods of phylogenetic inference from DNA sequence data, including data collection, alignment, and tree building using parsimony, distance, likelihood, and Bayesian techniques. Lectures will introduce the logical basis of these methods, and computational labs will give students hands-on experience with these methods using a variety of phylogenetic software packages.
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