Abstract: We introduce a novel method to computationally measure the distance between any two species based on unrelated short fragments of their genomic DNA. These pairwise species' distances are used to compute and output a two-dimensional "Map of Life", wherein each species is a point and the geometric distance between any two points reflects the degree of relatedness between the corresponding species. Such maps present compelling visual representations of relationships between species and could be used for species' classifications, new species identification, as well as for studies of evolutionary history.

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