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What is the first challenge of Evolutionary Informatics? |
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Challenge 1: enhance integration and discovery across the Tree of Life and its subtrees by depositing machine readable phylogenies into repositories, linking together clades, taxonomic names and unique identifiers, and developing new ways to handle the growing number of lineages that lack formal taxonomic names |
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State in your own words what PhyloCode is. |
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It is a new method of naming which will eliminate confusion by referencing phylogenetic rank. |
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Why have unnamed sequences been growing exponentially in number lately? |
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The pace of changing knowledge based on new sequence data is too fast. Due to increase in environmental sequencing and DNA barcoding projects. |
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What is the second challenge of Evolutionary Informatics? |
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Challenge 2: leverage our existing knowledge about the biodiversity of the world by digitizing, semantically enhancing and mobilizing legacy biodiversity sources |
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