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Lightning talk: **`rotl`** : an R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data #34

Open fmichonneau opened 7 years ago

fmichonneau commented 7 years ago

Authors: François Michonneau, Joseph Brown, David Winter

Abstract: While phylogenies have been getting easier to build, it has been difficult to reuse, combine and synthesize the information they provide because published trees are often only available as image files, and taxonomic information is not standardized across studies. The Open Tree of Life (OTL) project addresses these issues by providing a digital tree that encompasses all organisms, built by combining taxonomic information and published phylogenies. The project also provides tools and services to query and download parts of this synthetic tree, as well as the source data used to build it. Here, we present rotl, an R package to search and download data from the Open Tree of Life directly in R. rotl uses common data structures allowing researchers to take advantage of the rich set of tools and methods that are available in R to manipulate, analyse and visualize phylogenies.

License: rotl is free, open source and released under a Simplified BSD licence

k8hertweck commented 7 years ago

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