Phylogenetic methods for biological sequences
Phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relatedness among various
groups of organisms (e.g., species, populations),
which is discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices.
The goal is to assemble a phylogenetic tree representing a hypothesis
about the evolutionary ancestry of a set of genes, species, or other taxa.
In this tutorial we will describe the basic aspects involved in the computation of phylogenetic trees
including methods based on: Distance-matrix, Maximum parsimony, Maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference.