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NSF’s press release on the Open Tree of Life
Press Release 12-106 (original article) Assembling, Visualizing and Analyzing a Tree of All Life National Science Foundation grants will bring together what’s known about how species are related The...
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What are your favorite species?
Dear Colleagues, We need your help creating a list of exemplar species from across the tree of life for our public tree! As our team works to build an open tree of life for the systematics community,...
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What data should we collect about the input trees for the tree of life?
The absence of a formal reporting standard for phylogenetic analyses is a major impediment for digital access and reuse of published gene trees and species trees. Efforts are underway to develop a...
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Quiz time!
Dear Colleagues, Put on your quiz hats! We need some good questions! As our team works to build an Open Tree of Life for professionals we are also working on a educational version of the tree for the...
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Help!
Wanted: All your favorite trees With eleven investigators, the Open Tree of Life project is already a large-scale research endeavor. But that does not mean that they can add all 1.9 million known...
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Teamwork:
Across disciplinary boundaries What do a fungal evolutionary biologist and a computer scientist have in common? It is usually easier to name a long list of differences, but that does not mean that...
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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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