- 3rd Edition home
- Resources for Teachers
- The book's webpage at Wiley
- Part I : Bioinformatics : Analyzing DNA, RNA, and Protein Sequences
- Part II: Functional Genomics: Bioinformatics from DNA to RNA to Protein
- Chapter 8: The Eukaryotic Chromosome
- Chapter 9: DNA Analysis: Microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing
- Chapter 10: Bioinformatic Approaches to RNA
- Chapter 11: RNA Analysis: Microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing
- Chapter 12: Proteomics
- Chapter 13: Protein Structure
- Chapter 14: Functional Genomics
- Part III: Genomics
- Second edition
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics 3rd Edition
Chapter 7: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution
This page offers the web documents that are referred to in Chapter 7 of the book. In Chapter 6 we discussed multiple sequence alignments. These can be visualized as phylogenetic trees. We describe the main features of a tree (topology and branch lengths) and the stages of generating a tree. Approaches include maximum parsimony, distance-based methods, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian inference of phylogeny.