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Science 12 November 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5699, pp. 1144 - 1145
DOI: 10.1126/science.1106198
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Perspectives

EVOLUTION:
Genomic Databases and the Tree of Life

Keith A. Crandall and Jennifer E. Buhay

Even though we are far from finished counting the total number of species on Earth, biologists are eagerly assembling and reassembling the Tree of Life. In their Perspective, Crandall and Buhay discuss an intriguing computational method for assembling a phylogenetic supertree from gene sequences mined from existing genetic databases (Driskell et al.).

The authors are in the Department of Integrative Biology, and K. A. Crandall is also at the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum and the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA. E-mail: keith_crandall{at}byu.edu, crayfish{at}email.byu.edu

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