Phylogenomics Software School at Evolution 2025

Date: Jun 20 - All Day
Organizers: Tandy Warnow and Siavash Mirarabbaygi
This is part of Evolution 2025; See this page, and note the need to register through Evolution 2025.

One full day of tutorials and demos covering advances in software related to phylogenomic analysis of large datasets (hundreds to thousands of species and loci). Specific topics will include: inferring multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetic trees for single genes as well as multi-locus datasets, and phylogenetic networks.

Cost: $25
Two coffee breaks are provided
Max capacity: 100
Preregister during registration at Evolution 2025
Please bring a laptop to participate
Target audience: undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and researchers who estimate alignments and phylogenetic trees or phylogenetic networks, and wish to learn about new advances. People who develop methods are also encouraged to attend.
Opportunities for contributed talks at the workshop are available; submit a request with a brief abstract of the software you wish to present, to Tandy Warnow (warnow@illinois.edu)

Travel Support Additional funds are available of up to $500 per registered attendee to partially reimburse costs to attend the workshop, including accommodations, meals, travel, and the $25 registration fee.
Information on how to request travel support will be provided to registered participants at the Software School.

Software School Program The program will be a mixture of tutorials on new software, software demos, and short contributed talks, and will include time to work in small groups with the instructors. Specific software that will be taught will include new methods for large-scale multiple sequence alignment; species tree estimation methods addressing incomplete lineage sorting and gene duplication and loss; phylogenetic network estimation. The program will be posted here by June 1, 2025.

Please see this page for other software schools I will organize. In particular, note the software schhol Contemporary Challenges in Large-Scale Sequence Alignments and Phylogenies: Bridging Theory and Practice that we are organizing for August 11-14, 2025, at the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation in Chicago, Illinois. Also, please contact Tandy Warnow (warnow@illinois.edu) for more information.

This software school is supported by the National Science Foundation, through grant 2006069 to Tandy Warnow, IIBR Informatics: Advancing Bioinformatics Methods using Ensembles of Hidden Markov Models"