Applications

The principal application is estimating the number of taxa (often species) in a biological community, although there are many other applications.

We are collaborating with

• Dr. Slava Epstein of Northeastern University on analysis of marine microbial diversity.
  
• Dr. Thorsten Stoeck of Technische Universität Kaiserslautern on analysis of marine microbial diversity.
  
• Cameron Williams of Humboldt State University on diversity of lichens in redwood forest canopies.
  
• Daniel G. Peterson of Mississippi State University with the Mississippi Genome Exploration Laboratory.