Principal Investigator

Conrad J Burden Centre forBioinformation Science (CBiS), Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI), ANU

Project Title

Gene Tree and Species Tree Reconciliation with Bayesian MCMC Methods

Brief Description for General Publications

A tool for generating gene tree and species tree reconciliations with Bayesian MCMC methods has been developed by a team in Stockholm. In collaboration with this team, this project will further develop and test the tool ("PrIME"), and apply it to biological data generated by ANU scientists' research on coral DNA. The main focus will be determine the phylogeny of cnidaria in relation to other metazoa, with a further aim to elucidate the likely gene content of the urMetazoan. NF resources are required because the generation and comparison of phylogenetic trees is a computationally intensive task.