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Re: Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life

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Lucent wrote: post #14
culi wrote: post #12

Very cool. Perhaps you've seen OneZoom[0] already which is purely based on phylogenetic data sourced from Open Tree of Life. OTOL has been around for a long time. The project aggregates phylogenetic data from thousands of studies and creates a massive synthetic tree.[1] It's neat because anyone can contribute. If you find a study not represented in there you can contribute the newick tree/annotation for it. [0] https…

OneZoom is a great museum piece. Very engaging visualization that invites large touchscreen interaction. Impressive code behind it too for pruning offscreen vectors so the zoom stays smooth. On desktop however, perhaps due to my age, it gives me a bit of gorilla arm. Thanks to open data, I offer the same node hierarchy of OTT, among 10 other backbones, but present it with 3 different (perhaps less dazzling) viewing m…

Yes I saw the OTT tab after I left my comment. Mostly I wanted to take the opportunity to sing the praises of the OTT project

ptree is a very cool project! I'm a believer in the idea of mixing phylogenetic trees and trait tables. In tomato breeding, there is a lot of attention paid to closely related species as they hybridize quite readily. Being able to represent the phylogenetic relationships alongside their traits, habitats, etc is an extremely useful data visualization strategy. I actually made a tool to automate making charts like these but I don't think it's mature enough to share yet

Anyhow really great work on the project

Re: Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life

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Post by cik »

Thank you for sharing this. It's such a great example of how fun learning and the internet can be. It's downright refreshing when things don't have the same exact design as the rest of the universe, and take the time to teach something.
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