This application is designed to be a collaborative activity to teach undergraduate students about phylogeny and to prevent misconceptions about evolution. The system guides the students through a set of steps required to construct a phylogenetic tree based on morphological and DNA sequencedata.
Harvard SEAS: Press release
Project details
Project name: PhyloGenie
Project members: Bertrand Schneider, Laurence Muller, Megan Strait, Orit Shaer, Chia Shen
Published paper(s): Engaging Students in Collaborative ‘Tree-Thinking’ through Tabletop Techniques, ACM CHI 2012.
Employer: Harvard University, (SEAS), SDR Lab / Wellesley College
Date: 2010
Used technologies: C#/WPF (MS Surface SDK)
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