Enabling data-driven discoveries in evolutionary genetics and genomics.

IF 3.3 3区生物学 Q2 GENETICS & HEREDITY

Genetics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI:10.1093/genetics/iyaf084

Sudhir Kumar

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Abstract

The George W. Beadle Award honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers as a whole and led an exemplary research career. The 2025 awardee is Sudhir Kumar from Temple University, who has not only pushed the intellectual frontier of evolutionary genetics but has also served the community through numerous contributions to creating, disseminating, maintaining, and advancing invaluable software for molecular evolutionary genetics analyses (MEGA) and a web-accessible resource for species divergence times (TimeTree). In the essay below, Kumar traces the initiation and evolution of these resources and explains how these developments have driven his research program to develop computationally efficient and environmentally friendly innovations to address the growing need to analyze increasingly larger sequence data sets.

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在进化遗传学和基因组学中实现数据驱动的发现。

乔治·w·比德尔奖旨在表彰对整个遗传学研究社区做出杰出贡献并引领模范研究事业的个人。2025年的获奖者是来自天普大学的Sudhir Kumar，他不仅推动了进化遗传学的知识前沿，而且通过创建、传播、维护和推进分子进化遗传学分析（MEGA）的宝贵软件以及物种分化时间（timeree）的网络可访问资源，为社区做出了许多贡献。在下面的文章中，Kumar追溯了这些资源的起源和演变，并解释了这些发展如何推动他的研究项目开发计算效率和环境友好型创新，以满足日益增长的分析越来越大的序列数据集的需求。

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Genetics GENETICS & HEREDITY-

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

6.10%

发文量

177

审稿时长

1.5 months

期刊介绍： GENETICS is published by the Genetics Society of America, a scholarly society that seeks to deepen our understanding of the living world by advancing our understanding of genetics. Since 1916, GENETICS has published high-quality, original research presenting novel findings bearing on genetics and genomics. The journal publishes empirical studies of organisms ranging from microbes to humans, as well as theoretical work. While it has an illustrious history, GENETICS has changed along with the communities it serves: it is not your mentor''s journal. The editors make decisions quickly – in around 30 days – without sacrificing the excellence and scholarship for which the journal has long been known. GENETICS is a peer reviewed, peer-edited journal, with an international reach and increasing visibility and impact. All editorial decisions are made through collaboration of at least two editors who are practicing scientists. GENETICS is constantly innovating: expanded types of content include Reviews, Commentary (current issues of interest to geneticists), Perspectives (historical), Primers (to introduce primary literature into the classroom), Toolbox Reviews, plus YeastBook, FlyBook, and WormBook (coming spring 2016). For particularly time-sensitive results, we publish Communications. As part of our mission to serve our communities, we''ve published thematic collections, including Genomic Selection, Multiparental Populations, Mouse Collaborative Cross, and the Genetics of Sex.