[Taxacom] RES: phylogenetic software for undergrad class

Wed Apr 13 08:43:46 CDT 2011

Hi Lena,

For my classes on phylogeny (including lab classes) I strongly recommend:

* BioEdit

- For DNA and protein alignments (based on Clustal)

-  For checking and manual (?eye?) edition of matrices

* Paup/ PaupUp/ TNT

- For parsimony, ML and cluster analyses (molecular and morpho matrices)

Using Windows interface is not so attractive (the menu-based is possible
only in Mac version), so you can use PaupUp to have a user friendly
interface (with menus).

As Paup is not for free, TNT is a good option (it?s free). With TNT it?s
also possible to create numeric (morpho, etc.) matrices.

* TreeView and FigTree

Both free and good options to tree drawing.

That?s my two cents.

Best wishes,

Vitor.

BioEdit

 <http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/bioedit/bioedit.html>
http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/bioedit/bioedit.html

Paup

 <http://paup.csit.fsu.edu/> http://paup.csit.fsu.edu/

PaupUp

 <http://www.agro-montpellier.fr/sppe/Recherche/JFM/PaupUp/main.htm>
http://www.agro-montpellier.fr/sppe/Recherche/JFM/PaupUp/main.htm

TNT

 <http://www.zmuc.dk/public/phylogeny/tnt/>
http://www.zmuc.dk/public/phylogeny/tnt/

FigTree

 <http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/>
http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/

TreeView

 <http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/treeview.html>
http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/treeview.html 

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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] Em nome de Lena Struwe
Enviada em: ter?a-feira, 12 de abril de 2011 13:26
Para: Taxacom
Assunto: [Taxacom] phylogenetic software for undergrad class

Hi everybody -

If you have to teach just one basic lab for students where they have to
run a simple phylogenetic analysis of DNA+morphology and using parsimony
and likelihood, what software would you recommend that is user-friendly,
free, easy to learn, and so on? This is just for a lab, not a whole
class, and to get students to at least get a first hands-on experience
with running a simple analysis. I would like to use a program that is
visually pleasing, can handle at least small datasets, and uses the
Nexus format for import. Any suggestions and recommendations?

best

Lena Struwe

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