The Open Tree of Life project (OpenTree) is enabling a community-assembled tree of life by synthesizing the wealth of phylogenetic data published / being published by the scientific community and providing the means to update and refine the draft tree. Our four major goals:
- Build and make publicly available the first complete draft tree of life, capturing the depth of knowledge about biodiversity on Earth
- Engage the community in refinement and annotation of the draft tree
- Promote a culture of data sharing among systematists through software products that target key bottlenecks in phylogenetic workflows
- Develop, disseminate, and evaluate novel methods for phylogenetic synthesis
How to get involved
- improve the synthetic tree by uploading published phylogenies
- leave feedback on the current version of the synthetic tree
- sign up for the general mailing list or the software mailing list
- join this wiki
- suggest phylogenies that we should include: OpenTree Mendeley group
- follow us on Twitter
Products
- blog: http://blog.opentreeoflife.org
- source tree upload / management: https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/curator
- the latest version of the Open Tree of Life: http://tree.opentreeoflife.org/
- the Open Tree Taxonomy: http://files.opentreeoflife.org/ott/
- source code on GitHub: https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife
- education & outreach site: http://etreeoflife.com/
Project documentation
- Our Software development page has details for geeks
- Notes from meetings and design docs are in this public Open Tree of Life folder on Google Docs
- All of the code is on GitHub