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Free webinar: Putting all species in a graph database
Biology + Technology = OTOL One of the developers of the Open Tree of Life demonstrates Thursday, during a free webinar, how graph databases are used to construct a tree of life. The lecture is...
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Presentation slides from Evolution 2013 available
Open Tree of Life at meetings The Open Tree of Life project is one of the many phylogeny projects that are featured during the Evolution 2013 meeting that currently takes place in Snowbird (UT). The...
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Online publication to follow the three AVAToL projects
PLOS Currents: Tree of Life Peer-reviewed articles about the Open Tree of Life as well as two related projects, Arbor and Phenomics, will be available on PLOS Currents: Tree of Life. The online...
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What do mycologists think about the tree of life?
Two Open Tree participants, Romina Gazis and David Hibbett, recently attended the annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America in Austin, Texas. Romina gave a presentation about the Open Tree...
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The Soltis lab fills the gaps in green plant phylogeny for the Open Tree of Life
Phylogenetic tree summarizing relationships among major lineages of green plants (Viridiplantae) In the Soltis lab at the University of Florida, Bryan Drew and Jiabin Deng have spent much of the past...
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The Crandall lab explores solutions to incomplete phylogenies
The Crandall Lab is in charge of uploading and curating animal studies for the AVAToL-Open Tree project. Chris Owen, postdoctoral researcher, has been leading this portion of the project for the...
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Taxonomy and the tree of life
What’s in a name? It is now widely accepted that taxonomy should reflect phylogeny — that the names we use in biological classifications should refer to branches on the tree of life. This was one of...
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Mapping the Tree of Life: the ARBOR Project
Open Tree of Life met with ARBOR, a program funded by the National Science Foundation, to talk about what changes have been made featuring the synthetic tree of life. We spoke with Dr. Luke Harmon, an...
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How computer scientists are using map distance to determine phylogeny
What is distance? Distance is a way to measure the relatedness of two things. It is phrased in terms of similarity or difference relative to a feature. Different features expose different information...
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Which came first? A pivotal position in the plant tree of life
Amborella trichopoda The question of which extant angiosperm (flowering plant) lineage “came first” (i.e., is basal in the flowering plant tree of life) has long puzzled biologists. This question is...
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A push for fungal phylogenies in the Open Tree of Life
The summer of 2014 was a busy one for the mycology group in the Open Tree of Life. Postdoctoral Fellow Romina Gazis gave presentations on the Open Tree of Life at the Annual Meeting of the Mycological...
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Why Do We Need Big Trees, Anyway?
An explicit goal of the Open Tree of Life is to create a single phylogenetic tree that encompasses all living (and some extinct) biodiversity on earth. A question some may have, especially...
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Crandall Lab Update: What can we do with synthetic trees?
Currently, the Crandall Lab is examining ways to use the underlying OpenTree taxonomy to gather metadata, associate it with nodes and tips in our synthetic trees, and apply it to evolutionary studies....
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