Castoe Lab
Department of Biology
University of Texas Arlington
WHAT WE DO IN THE LAB
Evolutionary Genomics
Reptiles, esp. Snake Genomics
Genomics of Extreme Adaptations
Systems Biology
Population Genomics
UTA LINKS
UTA
Biology Department
Graduate Admissions
Genome Biology Group
Reptile and Amphibian
Research
Software
WHAT WE DO IN THE LAB
Evolutionary Genomics
Reptiles, esp. Snake Genomics
Genomics of Extreme Adaptations
Systems Biology
Population Genomics
LAB LINKS
Lab Research
Joining the Lab
GppFst: Genomic posterior predictive simulations of Fst and dXY for identifying outlier loci from population genomic data.
Examples/Citations: Adams et al., 2016, Bioinformatics [links coming soon]
Software: GPPFst (written by Rich Adams)
GITHUB PAGE: https://github.com/radamsRHA/GppFst
Description: GppFst is an open source R package that generates posterior predictive distributions of Fst and dXY under a neutral coalescent model to identify putative targets of selection from genomic data.
Analysis & identification of microsatellite loci from shotgun next-generation reads
Examples/Citations: Castoe et al., 2010, MER; Castoe et al., 2012, PLoS ONE
Software: pal_finder_v2.3 (written by Alex Poole)
Description: This is a script to identify and characterize microsatellite repeat loci from shotgun genomic sampling by 454 or Illumina paired-end reads, and design PCR primers flanking these loci. It requires a local install of Primer3 for the primer-design phase.
UPDATE: pal_finder_v0.02.04b (written by Alex Poole; Please cite Castoe et al., 2012, PLoS ONE).
Description: Updated to handle Illumina HiSeq scarf headers and FastQ input files...
Analyses of Convergent Molecular Evolution
Examples/Citations: Castoe et al., 2009, PNAS
Software: codeml ancestral (written by Jason de Koning)
Description: Modified version of Yang’s PAML codeml package designed to calculate the expected convergent substitutions while integrating over uncertainty in the ancestral state estimates.
Evolutionary analysis of complex models of nucleotide and protein evolution, so fast it will make your head spin!!! a.k.a. Phylogenetics, Likelihood, Evolution, and compleXity - PLEX
Examples/Citations: de Koning et al., 2009, MBE; deKoning et al., 2012, Bioinformatics)
Software: PLEX-Link to come soon! (written by Jason de Koning)
Description: This is broad and flexible analysis platform designed to utilize a broad spectrum of complex models and approaches to analyze large phylogenetic datasets, extremely rapidly. At this point, note that this software is not designed to conduct phylogenetic searches (at least, per se), but instead mostly devoted to the analysis and testing of complex models of nucleotide and protein evolution for the purposes of molecular evolutionary analysis.
