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Build a species tree from gene trees in your browser

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A 15-minute hands-on tutorial: combine discordant gene trees into a species tree with ASTRAL (ASTER), read support values and see how the answer depends on the data, all in the browser.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: ASTER, ASTRAL, Newick, gene trees, phylogenomics, species tree

Competency level: •• Intermediate

Resource type: hands-on tutorial

Learning objectives:

  • Combine many gene trees into one species tree with ASTRAL
  • Read an unrooted tree and its support values
  • See how the result depends on the gene trees you give it
  • Understand why gene trees can disagree

Authors: IEETA, University of Aveiro

External resources:
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