Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY-1999

这一行动资助了NSF 1999年生物信息学博士后研究奖学金。这项研究和培训计划是在种群生物学领域，标题是“将遗传和环境数据整合到一个比较数据库中：阐明跨越安第斯山脉的扩散在低地生物多样化中的作用。”这项研究连接了遗传和地理信息系统(GIS)技术，以考察安第斯山脉在生物多样性中的作用。已知的一条横跨安第斯山脉的扩散走廊具有相关环境参数的特征。这些数据，再加上分散生物的自然历史信息，正被用来构建遗传结构模型。然后，使用经验遗传数据对该模型的预测进行检验。

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.