Open Tree of Life

In today's world, Open Tree of Life is a recurring theme that has captured the attention of millions of people around the world. Whether due to its impact on society, its relevance in popular culture or its influence in the professional field, Open Tree of Life has become a constant point of discussion. From its origins to its present day, Open Tree of Life has left its mark on different aspects of daily life, generating conflicting opinions and passionate debates. In this article, we will thoroughly explore the phenomenon of Open Tree of Life and analyze its most relevant aspects, seeking to understand its importance and its possible implications for the future.

Open Tree of Life
Available inEnglish
URLopentreeoflife.org
Commercialno
Registrationnot required
LaunchedSeptember 2015
Current statusactive
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.

The tree of life at the node Eukaryota

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

  1. ^ "OpenTreeOfLife License".
  2. ^ Hinchliff CE, Smith SA, Allman JF, Burleigh JG, Chaudhary R, Coghill LM, et al. (October 2015). "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. Bibcode:2015PNAS..11212764H. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423041112. PMC 4611642. PMID 26385966.
  3. ^ "Assembling, Visualizing, and Analyzing the Tree of Life". National Science Foundation (NSF). 11 March 2011. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  4. ^ Pennisi E (21 September 2015). "First comprehensive tree of life shows how related you are to millions of species". Science Magazine.
  5. ^ "opentree". Open Tree of Life developers.
  6. ^ Rees JA, Cranston K (2017). "Automated assembly of a reference taxonomy for phylogenetic data synthesis". Biodiversity Data Journal. 5 (5): e12581. doi:10.3897/BDJ.5.e12581. PMC 5515096. PMID 28765728.
  7. ^ "tree.opentreeoflife.org".