Assembling the Tree of Life
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Assembling the Tree of Life: A flood of new information, from whole-genome sequences to detailed structural information to inventories of earth's biota, is transforming 21st century biology. Along with comparative data on morphology, fossils, development, behavior, and interactions of all forms of life on earth, these new data streams make even more critical the need for an organizing framework for information retrieval, analysis, and prediction. Phylogeny, the genealogical map for all lineages of life on earth, provides an overall framework to facilitate information retrieval and biological prediction. Currently, single investigators or small teams of researchers are studying the evolutionary pathways of heredity usually concentrating on phylogenetic groups of modest size. Assembly of a framework phylogeny, or Tree of Life, for all 1.7 million described species requires a greatly magnified effort by large teams working across institutions and disciplines. This is the overall goal of the Assembling the Tree of Life activity. The National Science Foundation announces its intention to continue support of multidisciplinary teams to conduct creative and innovative research that will resolve phylogenetic relationships for large groups of organisms on the Tree of Life. Teams of investigators also will be supported for projects in data acquisition, analysis, algorithm development and dissemination in computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics.
Federal Grant Title: | Assembling the Tree of Life |
Federal Agency Name: | National Science Foundation |
Grant Categories: | Science and Technology |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | 05-523 |
Type of Funding: | Grant |
CFDA Numbers: | 47.05047.070 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Geosciences 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
Current Application Deadline: | No deadline provided |
Original Application Deadline: | Mar 28, 2005 |
Posted Date: | Dec 01, 2004 |
Creation Date: | Dec 01, 2004 |
Archive Date: | Apr 27, 2005 |
Total Program Funding: | $29,000,000 |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $0 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $0 |
Expected Number of Awards: | 3 |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | 47.074 -- Biological Sciences |
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