15th International BioInformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology

Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam

Erasmus Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine

7-11 September 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Bioinformatics Methods Applied to Virology

Theoretical lectures about phylogenetic and datamining methods.
Practical sessions using PHYLIP, PAUP*, PHYML, MEGA, PAML, TREE-PUZZLE, SplitsTree, BEAST, GDE, LAMARC, Simplot, MrBayes, B course, R package, WEKA, RegaDB and other software.

We advise participants to buy The Phylogenetic Handbook for the workshop, and to bring their own data set.

Deadline for application and abstract: 30 April 2009.

Applications can be done on line during the months Februari, March and April.

Selections will be made by beginning of June 2009.

The registration fee (800EUR) includes lectures, lunches and coffee-breaks.



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