Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY-1999

本行动资助1999年美国国家科学基金会生物信息学博士后研究奖学金。这项研究和训练计划是在人口生物学领域，题为“将遗传和环境数据纳入比较数据库：阐明跨安第斯山脉分散在低地生物多样化中的作用”。本研究结合遗传和地理（GIS）技术来研究安第斯山脉在生物多样性中的作用。相关环境参数的特征跨越已知的跨安第斯分散走廊。这些数据，加上分散生物体的自然历史信息，正被用于构建遗传结构模型。然后使用经验遗传数据对模型的预测进行测试。

This action funds an NSF Research Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for 1999.The research and training plan is in the area of population biology and is entitled "Integration of genetic and environmental data into a comparative database: elucidating the role of across-Andes dispersal in the diversification of lowland organisms." This research bridges genetic and geographic (GIS) technologies to examine the role of the Andes in biological diversification. Relevant environmental parameters are characterized across a known across-Andes dispersal corridor. These data, coupled with natural history information of the dispersing organisms, are being used to construct models of genetic structure. The model's predictions are then tested using empirical genetic data.