EvoInfo : Evolutionary Informatics
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Responsible : Julie Thompson
Participants : Julie Thompson
Description : The term "Evolutionary Informatics" emphasizes the informatics aspects of evolutionary analysis, which is a kind of comparative analysis. We are participating in the EvoInfo working group funded by NESCent (http://www.nescent.org/).
The growth of bioinformatics and genomics presents a wealth of opportunities for expanded application of evolutionary methods-- expanded with respect to both the amount and the variety of analyses. Powerful tools for evolutionary analysis already exist, but integrating evolutionary methodology into biological data analysis does not depend so much on the power of tools as it does on infrastructure. To address these infrastrutural needs, the EvoInfo working group will develop community cohesion on issues of standards and interoperability, and will facilitate (directly and indirectly) development of interoperable software and data standards.
In this context, we are participating in the development of a Comparative Data Analysis Ontology (CDAO). (https://www.nescent.org/wg_evoinfo/CDAO)