Late night thoughts of a jet-lagged phylogeneticist

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Talk I gave as a "provocateur" at a NSF Ideas Lab on the tree of life

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@rdmpage

Late night thoughts of a jet-lagged phylogeneticist

http://iphylo.blogspot.com

Why aren’t we there yet?

There is no “map of life”

http://vimeo.com/26210611

@itoworld @openstreetmap

@ben_fry

@rdmpage

Can we have a set of coordinates for the tree of life?

Seeing the forest

I want a Flickr for phylogeny

@blaiseaguera

My tree

Trees like this

Where is this tree?

Other trees near here

(data from http://phylota.net and GenBank)

Beyond trees

What do insects live on?

Host info from

GenBank sequence

What lives on insects?

http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2011/03/visualising-symbiome-hosts-parasites.html

Connecting the tree to other data

The Semantic web:

“The future of the web… and always will be” – Peter Norvig

0, 1, n

There are only three numbers in computer science:

@stefanomaz

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/304/

Links built by community, editable, versioned

Wikis

GeneWiki

Huss et al. 2008 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175

http://iphylo.org/linkout

When building shared resources carrots beat sticks

Carrots beat sticks

To build community resource ensure you have an answer for this:

“what’s in it for me?”