Collins Timothy, Kearney Maureen, Maddison David
Florida International University.
PLoS Curr. 2013 Mar 7;5:ecurrents.tol.0fdb85e1619f313a2a5a2ec3d7a8df9e. doi: 10.1371/currents.tol.0fdb85e1619f313a2a5a2ec3d7a8df9e.
In August 2011, a week-long NSF-sponsored workshop focusing on the Tree of Life (ToL) took place in Lake Placid, New York. This workshop, called AVAToL (Assembling Visualizing, and Analyzing the Tree of Life), was the first application of NSF's Ideas Lab concept to systematics. In this article we outline the history and motivation for the Ideas Lab approach and its application to the ToL, explain the nuts and bolts of the Ideas Lab process and look to the potential contributions of AVAToL funded projects to help enable the future of ToL and more broadly, comparative biological research.
2011年8月，由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）赞助、为期一周的聚焦生命之树（ToL）的研讨会在纽约州普拉西德湖举行。这次名为“AVAToL（组装、可视化和分析生命之树）”的研讨会是NSF的创意实验室概念在系统学领域的首次应用。在本文中，我们概述了创意实验室方法的历史和动机及其在生命之树研究中的应用，解释了创意实验室流程的具体细节，并展望了由AVAToL资助的项目可能做出的贡献，这些贡献将有助于推动生命之树研究以及更广泛的比较生物学研究的未来发展。
