What is Phylogenetic analysis ?

Phylogenetic analysis is the study of the evolutionary development of a species or a group of organisms or a particular characteristic of an organism. It is important because it enriches our understanding of how genes, genomes, species (and molecular sequences more generally) evolve.

Phylogenetic Analysis of Evolutionary Relationships

Once we are able to align multiple sequences from different samples using pairwise alignment or multiple sequence alignment. Next, we need to answer; How closely related are these genomes? Did multiple genomes or whole groups of genomes originate from the same “parent” genome? Thus, phylogenetic analysis can be performed to understand the relationship among them or their origin.

For stepwise instructions on performing the pipeline on the T-Bioinfo Server and to understand the theoretical concept behind the algorithms used, visit Lesson 6: Genomics on OmicsLogic Learn Portal :

https://learn.omicslogic.com/Learn/course-3-genomics/lesson/06-phylogenetic-analysis

In this lesson, we will get an overview about the phylogenetic analysis. Here, we will also learn how we can perform phylogenetic analysis based on NGS data using the T-bioinfo server and derive biological significance.