Phylogenomics is a new way of looking at biological information. It refers to the intersection of several important aspects of modern biology such as molecular biology, systematics, population biology, evolutionary biology, computation, and informatics, with genome-level information as the source for testing hypotheses and for interpretation of data. Because the amount of information from genomes is orders of magnitude greater than previously available, novel approaches and new skills are needed by biologists to make sense of these data. In order to understand the biological information in a phylogenomic context, we first need to understand the nature of biological information and why and how we organize it. The technology explosion has caused a parallel explosion of data production and storage.
Understanding the nuances of computing therefore becomes an integral part of understanding phylogenomics. But we also need to have a good handle on the important molecular and evolutionary questions facing modern biology in order to formulate the right questions.
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