Phylogenetic trees show the evolutionary relationships between animals. This is a scientifically accurate scale model of a phylogenetic tree with the thirty mammals whose genomes have been sequenced. The full size mobile, measuring about 20 feet across, hangs in the lobby of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA.
A monthly column in Nature Methods on the design of scientific figures and data visualizations.
The 2011 Visualizing Biological Data workshop will bring together researchers developing and using systems to visualize a broad range of biological data. March 16-18, 2011 Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA