发展国际生物基因库倡议书.pptVIP

GenBank Huge amounts of data, easily accessible Rate of growth of phylogenetic knowledge Why have a phylogeny database? Archive data and trees (repeat old analyses with new tools) Synthesize new data sets and trees (supermatrices and supertrees) Big scale questions (tree shape, bias in tree building methods, stability of trees over time) Hypothesis testing : find all phylogenies for taxa with members in Gondwana -- do they show similar area cladograms, amounts of sequence divergence, etc. Who knows…(we won’t know until we try) Obstacles in the way Ontologies (consistent names for organisms, g