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phylotastic / phylotastic-portal

Web tool (ruby on rails) providing access to phylotastic services for acquiring species trees.
https://github.com/phylotastic/phylotastic/wiki
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decision needed: treating taxa not in synth tree #333

Open arlin opened 6 years ago

arlin commented 6 years ago

Currently we have lists that match OTT but sometimes the taxa are not in the tree if they are extinct or incertae sedis.

So, a user could have a nice list with 10 taxa from the portal itself, as in #330, but they are all extinct so no tree can be retrieved.

Consider the sources of this problem, and how to deal with it. Make a recommendation.