The NESCent Informatics wiki

This is a snapshot of the NESCent Informatics wiki taken in June 2015. Its live version is at http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/.

The NESCent Informatics program has two broad goals. The first is to provide support to the science sponsored by the Center. The second goal is to help build cyberinfrastructure that will enable evolutionary biologists to fully exploit the information-rich discipline that biology has become. This latter goal requires leveraging the energies and talents of the open source programming community to build extensible and interoperable software components for evolutionary analyses, and training the evolutionary biology community to fully realize the potential of these tools. This wiki documents several of NESCent's efforts to help build cyberinfrastructure, including the following:

• 1 Phyloinformatics Summer of Code
• 2 Cyberinfrastructure Summer Internships
• 3 Hackathons
  • 3.1 Population Genetics in R Hackathon
  • 3.2 Tree-for-all Hackathon
  • 3.3 Phylotastic: infrastructure for re-using megatrees
  • 3.4 GMOD Tools for Evolutionary Biology
  • 3.5 Phyloinformatics VoCamp
  • 3.6 Evolutionary Database Interoperability Hackathon
  • 3.7 NESCent Hackathon on Comparative Methods in R
  • 3.8 NESCent Phyloinformatics Hackathon: Lowering the Barrier
• 4 Call For Input
  • 4.1 Informatics Initiatives
  • 4.2 Use-cases