Daphne Fautin

Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Curator, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center

Bioinformatics

I coordinate the databasing aspects of the CnidToL project. The database for CnidToL expands my database originally designed to deal only with sea anemones (members of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia) that was later enhanced to include all hexacorallians. Being modular, it has been enlarged during the past decade not only taxonomically but in terms of the types of data it accommodates. The user interface to the database will support the taxonomic and biogeographic searches that were created for the hexacorallian project, and those to deal with phylogenetic data and tools will be added.