Introduction to Walk through MEGA
This walk-through provides several brief tutorials that explain how to perform common tasks in MEGA. Each tutorial requires the use of sample data files which can be found in the /MEGA/Examples folder (default location for Windows users is C:\Users\UserName\Documents\MEGA7\Examples\. The location for Mac users is $HOME/MEGA/Examples, where $HOME is the user’s home directory). It is recommended that you follow the examples for a given tutorial in the order presented as the techniques explained in the initial examples are used again in the subsequent ones.
In the tutorials, the following conventions are used:
· Keystrokes are indicated by bold letters (e.g., F4).
· If two keys must be pressed simultaneously, they are shown with a + sign between them (e.g., Alt + F3 means that the Alt and F3 keys should be pressed at the same time).
· Italicized words indicate the name of a menu or window.
· Italicized bold words indicate individual commands that are found in menus, submenus, and toolbars.
· ‘Main menu’ refers to the menu bar at the top of the currently active window (File, Analysis, Help, etc.).
· ‘Main MEGA menu’ refers to the menu on the main window of MEGA where you launch all of the analyses from.
· ‘Launch bar’ refers to the toolbar located directly below the main menu of the currently active window (Align, Data, Models, Distance, etc.).
· For brevity, a sequence of menu / button clicks is indicated by a sequence of commands separated by pipes (e.g., ‘File | Open’ indicates that you should click on the ‘File’ main menu item and then click on the ‘Open’ sub menu item that is displayed).
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1. Mega Basics
3. Estimating Evolutionary Distances
4. Building Trees from Sequence Data
6. Working with Genes and Domains
9. Computing Sequence Statistics
10. Building Trees from Distance Data