Tiffani Williams
Tiffani Williams creates new algorithmic tools for reconstructing the Tree of Life, which depicts the evolutionary connections among the world's species. As a scientist in bioinformatics and high-performance computing, she is working with a multidisciplinary team to build the Open Tree of Life. This project will produce the first comprehensive draft tree of all 1.8 million named species and enable community-driven updates and revisions to the tree. She has been a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and has published in Science, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and the Journal of Computational Biology. By helping identify how species are related to each other, Williams is providing a framework for a new understanding of the diversity of life and its implications in areas such as ecological health, environmental change, and human disease.
Tiffani Williams
Tiffani Williams creates new algorithmic tools for reconstructing the Tree of Life, which depicts the evolutionary connections among the world's species. As a scientist in bioinformatics and high-performance computing, she is working with a multidisciplinary team to build the Open Tree of Life. This project will produce the first comprehensive draft tree of all 1.8 million named species and enable community-driven updates and revisions to the tree. She has been a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and has published in Science, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and the Journal of Computational Biology. By helping identify how species are related to each other, Williams is providing a framework for a new understanding of the diversity of life and its implications in areas such as ecological health, environmental change, and human disease.