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Last week I was at [NESCent\'s](http://www.nescent.org) 2008 [Community
Summit](http://www.nescent.org/community_summit/Main_Page). As part of
that meeting a few of us had a breakout group on \"Biodiversity and
phylogenetics\". [Brian O\'Meara](http://treetapper-dev.blogspot.com/)
took some [spectacularly thorough
notes](http://www.nescent.org/community_summit/CommunitySummit_Phylogenetics),
including the pithy:  
  
S\[wofford\]: What?  
  
[Julia Clarke](http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/faculty/clarke/Clarke.htm) and I
were advocating data mining, not entirely successfully. At one point I
started ranting about **post-phylogenetics** (i.e., what do do when
we\'ve basically got the tree of life). For a brief moment I thought
this might be a cool new term to use, although Googling finds that [W.
Ford Doolittle](http://doolittle.biochem.dal.ca/) has used it in the
title of talks given at the Wenner-Gren Foundations International
Symposium at Stockholm in 2003, and at Penn State in 2006. However, the
2006 talk title (Postphylogenetics: The Tree of Life in the Light of
Lateral Gene Transfer) suggests a different meaning (i.e., there isn\'t
a tree of life to be found). I prefer to think of it in the same sense
as \"postgenomics\" \-- now that we have all this information, how can
we make the best use of it?


Last week I was at NESCent's 2008 Community Summit. As part of that meeting a few of us had a breakout group on "Biodiversity and phylogenetics". Brian O'Meara took some spectacularly thorough notes, including the pithy:  S[wofford]: What? Julia Clarke and I were advocating data mining, not entirely successfully.

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Postphylogenetics