Karen Cranston / @kcranstn / slides on GitHub
Summarize existing phylogenetic knowledge into a tree of life that is 1. complete; 2. online; 3. easily updateable.
manually curated
poorly resolved
much more taxonomically complete
Tip = lineage with > 500 OTUs
Red = Many sequences in GenBank; Blue = Few sequences
Tip = lineage with > 500 OTUs
Black = at least one tip from phylogeny
Missing phylogenies
Taxa without alignable data
Incomplete / out of date taxonomies
Unsampled taxa
Databases describing OTUs in microbial trees
(aka Tell Me More about “YNP Site_2 (81%) 2024889491”)
Funding from NSF AVAToL