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BEAST Presentation and Workshop

For the next CLOCKWORK meeting, Dr. Alexei Drummond, of the University of Aukland, will give a one day lecture and workshop on the Bayesian divergence time estimation program BEAST. 

The event is free, but participation is limited to 35, and pre-registration is required.  Participants will receive confirmation two weeks prior to the event.  Participants should bring a laptop, with the following programs pre-installed:
1) BEAST
2) BEAUti (this one is included in the download of BEAST automatically)
3) TreeAnnotator installed as well (it comes in the BEAST download along with BEAUti). Version 1.4.7 or later
4) TreeStat v. 1.0
5)Tracer
6) FigTree 1.1.2 or later
These programs can be downloaded from here : http://evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk/software.html
and here: http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk.

Laptops will need to me registered on the NESCent system.  This can be done in the morning prior to the workshop. For additional information about the program, please contact Julia Clarke or Brian Wiegmann .

When: May 2, 2008

Where:   NESCent

2024 W. Main St.

Durham, NC  27705

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Registration

Agenda

9:30 am - 10:30 am Coffee and Register computers on the NESCent system

10:30 am - 11:30 am Presentation by Alexei Drummond

11:30 am - 1pm Lunch (provided on site)

1 pm - 4 pm Workshop with BEAST

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Drummond, A.J.,Ho, S.Y.W., Phillips, M.J., Rambaut, A. 2006. Relaxed Phylogenetics and Dating with Confidence. PLoS Biol 4(5): e88. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040088

CLOCKWORK is a NESCent working group established to facilitate discussion, interaction, research, collaboration and information exchange between Triangle-based laboratories working in various areas of systematics, paleontology, and molecular evolution.  We aim to critically assess where this new field now stands to recommend directions for improving analytical tools that seek to integrate distinct and independent data sources, to identify potential new aims for paleontological research/databases related to divergence time estimation, and to address pertinent philosophical issues.

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