"It will be a fundamentally different way to do systematics," says Keith Crandall, director of GW's Computational Biology Institute (CBI), who is one of the project's 11 leaders from 10 institutions. The nearly $6 million project, called the Open Tree of Life, is one part of a three-pronged, $13 million initiative launched last year by the National Science Foundation that aims to produce an open-source tree and the analytical tools needed to explore it. The GW Magazine article details the involvement of nine GW faculty members, including CBI's Keith Crandall.
Tree of Life Researchers Trace the Connection Between All Living Things
Computational Biology Instiute's Keith Crandall Plays Key Role
November 12, 2013
From the newest twigs to the ancient limbs of the "Tree of Life," researchers trace the connections between all living things.