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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy: A How-to Manual, Third Editionby: Barry G. Hall  List Price: $41.95 Amazon.com's Price: $35.95 You Save: $6.00 (14%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 576.880285 EAN: 9780878933105 Edition: 3 ISBN: 0878933107 Label: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Manufacturer: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 233 Publication Date: June 18, 2007 Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Studio: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy helps the reader get started in creating phylogenetic trees from protein or nucleic acid sequence data. Although aimed at molecular and cell biologists, who may not be familiar with phylogenetic or evolutionary theory, it also serves students who may be familiar with phylogenetic theory but are unfamiliar with the tools used to apply that theory. The reader is led, step by step, through identifying sequences that are homologous to a sequence of interest, downloading these sequences from databases, creating multiple alignments, and using several different methods to construct trees. Learn More boxes present background on the various concepts and methods, and a website provides files needed for working through the tutorials in the text as well as additional software that facilitates some of the methods discussed. Key Changes to the Third Edition: * Over 90% of the text and screenshots are new. * A new program, MEGA, that has dramatically simplified and sped up the most tedious parts of making trees searching for and downloading sequences, aligning those sequences, and getting them into suitable formats is introduced as the primary tool for constructing trees. * PHYML, another new program that has sped up the Maximum Likelihood method by more than 100-fold, making it a practical alternative to other methods, is introduced. * Chapter 9 is devoted to a detailed method for reconstructing very ancient ancestral sequences, and software to facilitate that method is made available on the website. * Chapter 10 speaks to detecting adaptive evolution. * The final chapter comprises detailed instructions for working with programs on Macintosh, Windows, and Unix platforms. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - understandableEasy to understand and use, even if you are still learning english. Every step to make a phylogenetic tree is explained in such a way that is easy to work with your own data set. It contains background about molecular phylogeny.. Recomended. Rating: - ExcellentI have to say this is a great book. I construct phylogenetic trees all the time, and this book not only can be used as a working manual, but also delivers basic background information. Plus, it was such a pleasue to read, as the author made every point clear and logic. The only thing I would suggest is that maybe the author can introduce several more programs in the next edition, such as PAUP, mafft, muscles, etc. All in all, it is Absolutely Excellent. Rating:  - Excellent butBuy this if you must but there is a third edition. They complement each other to some extent but the third edition is more useful as it is more up to date and even slimmer and yet more powerful in that it totally obviates the need to pour over Paup. Here is a good treatment of Paup. Wonderful for beginners. Review for the 3rd Edition (as Amazon only allow one review per set) - I now give it 5 stars and a title would be: Buy it, Do it ... or something similar. Shortly ... Read More 
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