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We are a collection of laboratories all based at NUI Maynooth working in the areas of bioinformatics, Genetics and evolutionary biology.

The overall goal of the initiative is to understand the diversity of life on the planet. We approach this issue from a computational perspective for the most part, but also from the perspective of palaeontology, biochemistry and cellular biology.

Currently, we are working on the early evolution of Eukaryotes, methods for distributing computational problems across networks of computers, improving the efficiency of phylogenetic algorithms particularly those related to phylogenetic supertree inference. We work on animals, plants, bacteria, protozoans, fungi and viruses.

Current funding is provided by The Wellcome Trust, Science Foundation Ireland, The Higher Education Authority and The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.

A list of our recent publications can be found by clicking the publications tab above.

NEWS: A special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, entitled The Network of Life: Genome Beginnings and Evolution, edited and compiled by Mark A. Ragan, James O. McInerney and James A. Lake is now available at a special discount by contacting Debbie Vaughan. The link to the special issue is here.

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