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'''[[Evolutionary informatics]]''' is a sub-branch of [[informatics]] that addresses the algorithmic and technological tools (like information and analytical systems) needed to better manage data from research in ecology and evolutionary biology and answer evolutionary questions. As in [[bioinformatics]] and [[genomics]], scientists studying biological evolution have gathered an increasingly large volume of information, resulting in information management problems. Additionally, as bioinformatics and genomics are pertinent to the study of evolution, utilization of information from those areas is of concern in evolutionary informatics. | '''[[Evolutionary informatics]]''' is a sub-branch of [[informatics]] that addresses the algorithmic and technological tools (like information and analytical systems) needed to better manage data from research in ecology and evolutionary biology and answer evolutionary questions. As in [[bioinformatics]] and [[genomics]], scientists studying biological evolution have gathered an increasingly large volume of information, resulting in information management problems. Additionally, as bioinformatics and genomics are pertinent to the study of evolution, utilization of information from those areas is of concern in evolutionary informatics. | ||
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Evolutionary informatics is a sub-branch of informatics that addresses the algorithmic and technological tools (like information and analytical systems) needed to better manage data from research in ecology and evolutionary biology and answer evolutionary questions. As in bioinformatics and genomics, scientists studying biological evolution have gathered an increasingly large volume of information, resulting in information management problems. Additionally, as bioinformatics and genomics are pertinent to the study of evolution, utilization of information from those areas is of concern in evolutionary informatics.
Evolutionary informatics has evolved out of a wide variety of scientific, mathematical, and computational endeavors, including evolutionary biology, evolutionary computation, algorithmic and evolutionary algorithmic research, and software development. It can help tackle problems and tasks such as reducing "the growing number of lineages that lack formal taxonomic names," digitizing and semantically enhancing legacy biodiversity data while also making it more portable, and building "sustainable digital community repositories that provide access to rich data and metadata" in the field of evolutionary biology. (Full article...)
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