Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160103474

Funded Activity Summary

Evolutionary analyses of short-read sequences from pooled samples. This project aims to provide biologists with a means of making sound, statistical inferences about evolution by using next-generation data from mixed samples. When biologists make statements about history, they use evolutionary trees, frequently reconstructed from the genetic data of many individuals. Next-generation sequencing provides large amounts of genetic data at low cost, but biologists have difficulty using these data for evolutionary research, particularly when they sample mixtures of DNA from many individuals. The anticipated value of this project is that it allows evolutionary biologists to capitalise on the benefits of next-generation sequencing, without sacrificing their ability to make reliable inferences about history.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $491,900.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biostatistics | Bioinformatics Software | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Bioinformatics Software | Biostatistics | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences | Genetics | Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

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