Slide 1 Lecture 1 – Introduction and Importance of Systematics Mayr - “the theory and practice of classifying organisms”.  -Taxonomy – includes species descriptions,…

Slide 1 The history of the Indo-Europeans Tandy Warnow The University of Texas at Austin Slide 2 Questions about Indo-European (IE) How did the IE family of languages evolve?…

Slide 1 IPAM Workshop on Multiple Sequence Alignment Tandy Warnow The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Slide 2 Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA): a major grand…

Slide 1 Phylogeny Estimation: Why It Is "Hard", and How to Design Methods with Good Performance Tandy Warnow Department of Computer Sciences University of Texas…

Slide 1 Complexity and The Tree of Life Tandy Warnow The University of Texas at Austin Slide 2 How did life evolve on earth? An international effort to understand how life…

Slide 1 From Gene Trees to Species Trees Tandy Warnow The University of Texas at Austin Slide 2 The “Tree of Life” Slide 3 The Tree of Life: Importance to Biology Biomedical…

Family of HMMs Nam Nguyen University of Texas at Austin Outline of Talk Background Family of HMMs Model Alignment algorithm Applications of fHMM SEPP (Mirarab, Nguyen, and…

Simultaneous estimation of Trees and Alignments, or Complexity and The Tree of Life Tandy Warnow The University of Texas at Austin How did life evolve on earth? Courtesy…

Three approaches to large-scale phylogeny estimation: SATé, DACTAL, and SEPP Tandy Warnow Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin AGAT TAGACTT…

Algorithms, Statistics, and Big Data in Biology From Gene Trees to Species Trees Tandy Warnow The University of Texas at Austin Orangutan Gorilla Chimpanzee Human From the…