By Peter Unmack
Over the years of teaching folks various aspects of conducting molecular phylogentics I've developed guides on how to do various things. This helps me to figure out how I did something in the past, as well as being helpful when training others. Hopefully you find the information to be useful too. If you find any errors, or have suggestions for improvements please email me at .
General lab advice
Various tips for organizing your samples, data and files.
Data deposition in Dryad, TreeBase and GenBank.
Data editing / datafile creation advice
Guide to chromatogram editing and sequence checking.
Guide to using Chromas and BioEdit.
Guide to data file conversion (phylip, nexus, mega, fasta).
Guide to creating haplotype datasets and tables.
Program How-tos
Common PAUP analysis blocks for command line version.
Using TreeEdit to obtain a starting tree in BEAST that is consistent with your constraints.
How to make an Arlequin input file using DnaSP.
How to phase nuclear data in DnaSP.
DNA based lab exercises
Sequence data exploration and analysis using MEGA.
