Evolutionary Informatics And Its Challenges
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
In recent years, huge amounts of genetic and genomic data has been gathered and a complex computational infrastructure to handle it has been developed. Yet, evolutionary biologists are also interested in data which is not yet integrated with the digital world as thoroughly as the genomic data (such as, for example, character evolution, evolution of development, …). Evolutionary informatics aims to capture, store and integrate all these kinds of data. The interdisciplinary efforts required to make this work are subjected to some interlinked challenges, which are identified and reviewed in an article in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. As ‘grand goal’ for evolutionary informatics, the authors of the review article mention: read more