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Report on the Ohio State University workshops in phylogenetic methods
Author(s) -
AbdulSalim Kobinah,
Daly Marymegan,
Freudenstein John V.,
Wenzel John W.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00117.x
Subject(s) - phylogenetic tree , bayesian probability , maximum parsimony , phylogeography , biology , evolutionary biology , data science , computer science , artificial intelligence , genetics , clade , gene
A three‐part series of workshops in phylogenetic methods was held at the Ohio State University in September and December 2005. The first two were sponsored by the OSU Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), and focused on phylogeography and phylogenetic data, and phylogenetic analysis of large data sets respectively. These workshops highlighted theoretical and practical aspects of phylogeographic inferences using model‐based approaches (e.g. likelihood and Bayesian MCMC), as well as current approaches to analyzing large datasets using both parsimony and model‐based methods. The third workshop was sponsored by OSU systematics faculty, and was intended to provide practical training in current tools of phylogenetic analysis at the beginning and intermediate levels. The success of these workshops emphasizes the need for greater interaction between those involved in theoretical and empirical phylogenetic research. Further workshops, such as these, would serve to bring a practical understanding of these methods to as broad an audience as possible. © The Willi Hennig Society 2006.