Second Place, 2016

This network was created to visualize evolutionary relatedness of approximately 750,000 genes from 66 different species, ranging from humans to bacteria. Each colored nodule in the network is composed of a set of genes predicted to originate from the same ancestral gene in some ancestral species. When two or more groups can't be exactly resolved, they are left connected to each other, with the groups of genes at the center being particularly poorly resolved.

Credit:
Claire McWhite
Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Student