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BIOL 708G Advanced Topics in Biology: Genetics and Genome Data Analysis, is a graduate level course in computational biology. The Fall 2007 course focuses on modern computational methods in large-scale phylogenetic analysis, dating events on phylogenies and the molecular clock. Among the topics covered include retrieval of sequences from databases, data formating, data management strategies, large-scale phylogenetic analysis, multi-gene phylogenetic analysis, using fossil dates to estimate dates on a phylogeny, dealing with dating uncertainty.
The course consists of lectures, readings, discussions, and course project with associated writing assignments. The project will be a large-scale (e.g., 100-1000 taxa) phylogenetic study from design through sequence retrieval and analysis, to written manuscript.
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