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Software Bazaar: Phylotastic suite of tools
Authors: Arlin Stoltzfus, Enrico Pontelli, Brian O'Meara, Dima Mozzherin, Dail Laughinghouse, Thanh Nguyen, Van Nguyen, Abu Saleh Source code: https://github.com/phylotastic License: GPL Abstract: Until recently, expert knowledge on phylogenetic relationships-- the Tree of Life-- was scattered in thousands of inaccessible publications. Then the OpenTree project processed thousands of publications to generate a "synthetic tree" covering millions of species, a resource with enormous potential both for educational purposes and to guide research. Yet, there is still a very large accessibility gap, making it unlikely that this trove of knowledge will flow into the hands of scientists, educators, and the public. The Phylotastic project aims to lower the barriers to accessing the tree of life: we want to make getting a species tree just as easy-- and as fast-- as getting online driving directions. We solve problems involved in using scientific names, extracting relationships, integrating time-scales, and finding images and other resources about species. We have tools for going from photos of museum labels to a phylogeny on an iPhone, a web portal for returning the tree of life, an R package for pulling in trees, and tools for getting chronograms.