Resources

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Resources for learning fundamentals of genetics, evolution, and conservation genomics

currently being added

• Molecular Biology | Fundamentals of Biology - MIT OpenCourseWare
• Genetics | Fundamentals of Biology - MIT OpenCourseWare
• NIH Genomics Education Websites
• DNA from the Beginning
• Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th ed. NCBI Bookshelf
• Introduction to Conservation Genetics, 2nd ed. Google Books

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Resources for learning about DNA extraction and molecular biology laboratory techniques

currently being added

• Genetics Learning Resources
• CDC Laboratory Training: Basic Molecular Biology
• Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) Education Pages
• IDT Genotyping: Terms to Know

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Resources and links for starting bioinformatics

• Practice exercises from the Software Carpentries: Unix command line
• Install R and RStudio
• Practice exercises in Software Carpentries: Programming in R
• Install the R packages in the tidyverse, explore making plots with ggplot2
• Explore the R graph gallery website
• Start practicing the exercises in the R for Data Science book
• Practice exercises in Hands-On Programming with R book
• Create a GitHub account and make your first repository
• Follow the beginner Git tutorials for Software Carpentries
• Begin using RMarkdown and create an R notebook for making simple plots

Additional Software resources

• MEGA (Link) - Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software
• R packages
  • tidyverse and tidyverse homepage
  • ape and ape homepage
  • adegenet and adegenet homepage
  • pegas
  • poppr and poppr homepage
• PHYLUCE (Link)
• samtools (Link)
• IQ-TREE (Link)
• RAxML (Link)
• BEAST2 (Link)

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Recursos en español

Software Carpentry lecciones en español

• La Terminal de Unix
  
• El Control de Versiones con Git
  
• R para Análisis Científicos Reproducibles