New VertLife project will sprout a forest of family trees

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Reporter: smasinde
Assignee: smasinde
Type: Task
Summary: New VertLife project will sprout a forest of family trees
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-09-22 17:41:01.215
Updated: 2014-09-22 17:41:01.215
        
Description: A 4 year (2014 - 2018)  NSF funded project at University of Yale, is a flagship project within the NSF’s Genealogy of Life program to build an open access, universal database, and biodiversity analysis tools for the next generation of comparative biologists and other scientists. Aims to compile and all 33,000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles alive today; and also generate additional data for 4000 species.  Likewise, VertLife is aimed at students. There will be online tutorials embedded in the project, along with a museum display developed around the family trees.  For a demo, see Map of Life (MoP): http://www.mol.org/

Project Lead: Prof. Walter Jetz

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