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Open Tree of Life
Topic: Biology
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| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Website | opentreeoflife.org |
| Commercial | no |
| Registration | not required |
| Launched | September 2015 |
| Current status | active |
Content license | BSD 2-clause (FreeBSD)[1] |
The Open Tree of Life is an online phylogenetic tree of life – a collaborative effort, funded by the National Science Foundation.[2][3] The first draft, including 2.3 million species, was released in September 2015.[4] The Interactive graph allows the user to zoom in to taxonomic classifications, phylogenetic trees, and information about a node. Clicking on a species will return its source and reference taxonomy.
Approach
The project uses a supertree approach to generate a single phylogenetic tree (served at tree.opentreeoflife.org[5]) from a comprehensive taxonomy and a curated set of published phylogenetic estimates.
The taxonomy is a combination of several large classifications produced by other projects; it is created using a software tool called "smasher".[6] The resulting taxonomy is called an Open Tree Taxonomy (OTT) and can be browsed on-line.[7]
History
The project was started in June 2012 with a three-year NSF award to researchers at ten universities. In 2015, a two-year supplemental award was made to researchers at three institutions.
See also
References
- ↑ "OpenTreeOfLife License". https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenTreeOfLife/opentree/master/LICENSE.txt.
- ↑ "Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (41): 12764–9. October 2015. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423041112. PMID 26385966. Bibcode: 2015PNAS..11212764H.
- ↑ "Assembling, Visualizing, and Analyzing the Tree of Life". National Science Foundation (NSF). https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503629.
- ↑ Pennisi, Elizabeth (21 September 2015). "First comprehensive tree of life shows how related you are to millions of species". Science Magazine. https://www.science.org/content/article/first-comprehensive-tree-life-shows-how-related-you-are-millions-species.
- ↑ "opentree". Open Tree of Life developers. https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/.
- ↑ "Automated assembly of a reference taxonomy for phylogenetic data synthesis". Biodiversity Data Journal 5 (5): e12581. 2017. doi:10.3897/BDJ.5.e12581. PMID 28765728.
- ↑ "tree.opentreeoflife.org". https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/taxonomy/browse.
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