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The Ideas Lab Concept, Assembling the Tree of Life, and AVAToL

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: PLoS Currents

DOI: 10.1371/currents.tol.0fdb85e1619f313a2a5a2ec3d7a8df9e

Authors: Timothy Collins, Maureen Kearney, David Madison

Institutions: Florida International University, U.S. National Science Foundation

Language: English

Topic: Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

Subfield: Information Systems and Management

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2002797604

FWCI: 2.921

Cites: 6

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10