Here are some useful links for people working on mycology in West Africa
Phylogenetics is an integer part of studies of diversity.
| MAFFT | A software to infer multiple sequence alignments, the site contains a link to an online server |
| AliView | An alignment viewer for manual inspection and editing of sequence alignments; also comes with the alignment program muscle |
| RAxML | RAxML, a software for fast maximum likelihood estimation of phylogenies |
| RAxML tutorial | A tutorial on how to use RAxML |
| RAxML blackBox | A web service to run RAxML on, does not offer as many options as a local installation |
| IQ-TREE | An alternative to RAxML that implement more models |
| CIPRES | A public resource for phylogenetic inference, many software are available and can be run on several cores |
Git is a version control system, that allows several people to work on the same project. GitHub is a repository for git projects that allows all people in the project to sync and access the files in the project. Git is usually used in software project but can be used for any type of files. It is however not practical for very large files.
| Intro to git and GitHub | An introduction to get started with using git and GitHub |
| tryGit | An interactive site to learn git |
| GitHub Desktop | A graphical interface app for git |
| GitHub Desktop help | Instructions for installing and configuring GitHub desktop |
Web pages are a good way to present information.
| HTML tutorial | HTML is the language of the web, and w3school's HTML tutorial is a good starting point to learn HTML |
| JavaScript tutorial | JavaScript is the programming language that most browsers can interpret and it is easily integrated into HTML to create interactive pages, and w3school's tutorial is a good starting point to learn it |