a proof-of-concept multidisciplinary method and system for cell lineage analysis from somatic mutations. In his TEDxTel-Aviv talk "Uncovering The Human Cell Lineage Tree The next grand scientific challenge" Shapiro described the system and results obtained with it so far, and a proposal for a FET Flagship project "Human Cell Lineage Flagship initiative" for uncovering the Human cell lineage tree in health and disease. E-democracy Shapiro initiated in 2012 and led the "open party" (later "open community") project within the Public Knowledge Workshop, which aimed to provide foundations for the operation of an e-party espousing direct democracy via the internet. He further extended his concepts of e-democracy in his Davos 2016 WEF lecture and Financial Times Opinion article. In 2020 he founded the political party Democratit - freedom, equality and fraternity. See also Ehud Shapiro's talk in TEDxTel-Aviv: Uncovering The Human Cell Lineage Tree The next grand scientific challenge Democratit - freedom, equality and fraternity (political party) References 1955 births Living people Israeli bioinformaticians Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science People from Jerusalem European Research Council grantees