Different molecular biology topics and methods useful in biodiversity science. 

===In the lab=== 

  *[[Setting up a molecular biology laboratory|Setting up a laboratory for molecular biology]]
  *[[Sample collection and DNA extraction|Good practices for sample collection; and DNA extraction methods]] 
  *[[Real time PCR|Quantitative real time PCR]], usually from cDNA 
  *[[High throughput sequencing for genetic diversity|High throughput sequencing for genetic diversity]]
  
  
===At the computer===
  *Basic notions in [[BLAST introduction|sequence similarity search]] using BLAST programs
  *[[Standalone BLAST|Standalone BLAST on a local database]], and tips on parsing large BLAST output files 
  *[[Commandline remote BLAST|Commandline multiple BLAST searches on the public NCBI database]]
  *[[Bioinformatic tools to detect microsatellites loci from genomic data|Bioinformatic tools to detect microsatellites loci from genomic data]]
  *[[Guide to amplicon sequencing experiment|A guide to amplicon sequencing experiments]] for microbial communities analyses
  *[[NGS sequence alignment and variant calling|High throughput sequencing (bioinformatic tools)]]