Practicals
Completion requirements
PDFs of the Google Form practical exercises
#1 BUSCO Genomes
Assessment of BUSCO completeness of 10 insect genomes
#2 Phylogenetics to Phylogenomics
Use #1 results to build phylogenetic trees & species tree
#3 Gene Family Evolution
Identify dramatically changing gene families
#4 Gene Family Evolution II
Phylogenies of rapidly evolving multi-copy gene families
BUSCO bonus
Use the BUSCO plotting tool to visualise the results from the first practical exercise
OrthoDB bonus
A ‘quiz’ that requires browsing and searching of OrthoDB online to find the answers
Orthology bonus
More programming-oriented (scripting) using the API to query OrthoDB and build an orthology landscape plot