Introduction to Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs) and Phylogenies

Submitted by Aidan Budd on December 19, 2013

Slides used for teaching an introduction to phylogenies and MSAs in the context of phylogenies for the first day of a two-day course on MSAs at Cambridge University, in the UK, in December 2013. Course taught together with Holger Dinkel and Terri Attwood.

Link

Presentations and exercises for introductory MSA/Phylogeny course
http://www.embl.de/~seqanal/courses/commonCourseContent/indx_CambGeneticsPhyloMsaDec2013.html

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