Achievement

IGERT trainees Jennifer Wisecaver and Daniel DeBlasio developed a programming tool called SICLE, a high throughput tool for evolutionary tree relationship discovery. This tool takes a phylogeny and finds the closest species. Although other available tools perform similar tasks, this one is unique in that it can process high volumes of data without user intervention. Jennifer and Daniel are currently submitting a manuscript for publication. The work is current in Cornell's pre-publication repository: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5785. This work was made possible through our IGERT program because it brought together a biologist and a computer scientist. This collaborative work was developed and completed independently from any IGERT required course/training. Even though Jennifer is now in a post doctoral position, we anticipate they will continue to collaborate in the future.