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Phylotastic! Making Tree-Of-Life Knowledge Accessible, Reusable And Convenient, Arlin Stoltzfus, Hilmar Lapp, Helena Deus, Brian Sidlauskas, Christian M. Zmasek, Gaurav Vaidya, Enrico Pontelli, Karen Cranston, Rutger Vos, Campbell O. Webb, Luke J. Harmon, Megan Pirrung, Brian O'Meara, Matthew W. Pennell, Siavash Mirarab, Michael S. Rosenburg, James P. Balhoff, Holly M. Bik, Tracy A. Heath, Peter E. Midford, Joseph W. Brown, Emily Jane Mctavish, Jeet Sukumaran, Mark Westneat, Michael E. Alfaro, Aaron Steele, Greg Jordan
Phylotastic! Making Tree-Of-Life Knowledge Accessible, Reusable And Convenient, Arlin Stoltzfus, Hilmar Lapp, Helena Deus, Brian Sidlauskas, Christian M. Zmasek, Gaurav Vaidya, Enrico Pontelli, Karen Cranston, Rutger Vos, Campbell O. Webb, Luke J. Harmon, Megan Pirrung, Brian O'Meara, Matthew W. Pennell, Siavash Mirarab, Michael S. Rosenburg, James P. Balhoff, Holly M. Bik, Tracy A. Heath, Peter E. Midford, Joseph W. Brown, Emily Jane Mctavish, Jeet Sukumaran, Mark Westneat, Michael E. Alfaro, Aaron Steele, Greg Jordan
Tracy Heath
Background
Scientists rarely reuse expert knowledge of phylogeny, in spite of years ofeffort to assemble a great “Tree of Life” (ToL). A notableexception involves the use of Phylomatic, which provides tools togenerate custom phylogenies from a large, pre-computed, expert phylogeny ofplant taxa. This suggests great potential for a more generalized systemthat, starting with a query consisting of a list of any known species, wouldrectify non-standard names, identify expert phylogenies containing theimplicated taxa, prune away unneeded parts, and supply branch lengths andannotations, resulting in a custom phylogeny suited to the user’sneeds. Such a system could become a sustainable community resource ifimplemented …