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Tutorial to infer phylogenetic networks from multilocus data with SNaQ in PhyloNetworks

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SNaQ Tutorial: from alignments to phylogenetic network

This website has an alternative tutorial for SNaQ to the one in the PhyloNetworks wiki. Here, we use a Docker for the installation of Dependencies and we use a real dataset (baobabs) to illustrate the pipeline from multilocus alignments to phylogenetic network.

This learning materials were created as part of the workshop in the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens: Methodological Advances in Reticulate Evolution taught in November 2023 co-organized with George Tiley, Ziheng Yang and Tomas Flouri.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the tutorial, you will be able to

  • estimate gene trees (and posterior distributions) from multilocus alignments with MrBayes
  • estimate concordance factors from the estimated posterior distributions with BUCKy
  • estimate a phylogenetic network from the estimated concordance factors with SNaQ

Schedule

Topic Lecture notes Time
1. Theory: Estimating phylogenetic networks from multilocus alignments notes 13:00 - 15:00
Break 15:00 - 15:30
2. Set up: dependencies and data set-up, data 15:30 - 16:30
3. From alignments to concordance factors with the TICR pipeline notes 16:30 - 17:30
Q&A 15:30 - 16:00
Topic Lecture notes Time
4. Estimating a phylogenetic network with SNaQ notes 9:00 - 10:30
Break 10:30 - 11:00
5. Comparative models for trait evolution on networks notes 11:00 - 12:00

Citations

If you use the TICR pipeline, PhyloNetworks and/or SNaQ for your work, please cite the references in here

Meet the instructor

Claudia Solís-Lemus is an assistant professor at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally from Mexico City, she did her Undergraduate degrees in Actuarial Sciences and Applied Mathematics at ITAM. Then, she did a MA in Mathematics and a PhD in Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.