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Phylogenetic tree troubleshooting

Or, how I failed advanced file copying. TL:DR? Phylogenetic trees can be hard to interpret – use bootstraps to help! Low coverage in one strain or having an outlier can screw with your tree Including positions that have been ignored due to low quality in some of your strains can be useful (i.e. use RAxML and…

April 25, 2014 in Bioinformatics, How-to, Introduction, Microbiology.

Introduction to microbial genomic epidemiology and bioinformatics

I thought I would knock together a quick post listing a few useful introductory papers that I have sent to people on multiple occasions, just to save a bit of time. I will also include any suggestions that other people use to introduce others to the rapidly expanding world of bacterial genomic epidemiology. EDIT: going…

December 13, 2013 in Introduction.

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