At Reading Frank Bisby, Alistair Culham, Neil Caithness, Tim Sutton, Peter Brewer, Chris Yesson At Cardiff Alec Gray, Andrew Jones, Nick Fiddian, Nick Pittas, Xuebiao Xu, Richard White At Southampton Oliver Bromley At NHM Malcolm Scoble, Paul Williams, Shonil Bhagwat A BBSRC e-Science Project
What are the goals of BDWorld? Extensible problem solving environment for global biodiversity analysis Distributed computing Employ GRID technology Resource location Workflow design & validation
BdwCore Architecture
Metadata Workflow Designer Workflow Manager Taxonomic Verification Resource Wrapper BGI Core Request Response Implementation
Some relevant resource types: Data sources: Species 2000 ‘Catalogue of Life’ Species Information Sources (SISs) e.g. AVH, SpeciesAnalyst, RDG, CBIF, MBG...DIGIR, ABCD etc Geographical Boundaries of geographical & political units Climate surfaces (Hadley, Paul Valdes' Palaeoclimate Data) Genetic sequences (EMBL, local data) Analytic tools: Biodiversity richness assessment (WorldMap) Bioclimatic modelling (Garp, CSM, Bioclim) Phylogenetic analysis (Paup, clustalw, etc)
Bioclimatic Modelling Basics CBIF, MBG, SpeciesAnalyst, RDG, AVH…..
Bioclimatic Modelling
Bioclimatic Modelling
Bioclimatic Modelling
Bioclimatic Modelling
Bioclimatic Modelling
Bioclimatic Modelling
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SpecimenABC Mean Diurnal14810 Mean Precipitation Mean Radiation Mean Temperature795 Climate preference or niche (GARP, CSM, BIOCLIM) summarised projected... Additional variables
Output Process Identify suitable database Data mining Taxonomic validation Data correction Worldmap import CBIF butterflies (Lepidoptera) database Species distribution data file XML files Text file (intermediate) Text file (final) Text file (preliminary) Minimum area set Biodiversity Conservation Assessment
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Species Name Search DNA Sequence Search Align/Edit Sequences Phylogenetic Analysis Point Data Search Climate Modeling Combine Climate Data with Phylogenies Phylogenetic Biogeography
Using climate data in conjunction with phylogenies Use climate model as a character within a phylogenetic analysis How do we code this? How do we weight this? Use molecular clocks, palaeo- geography and palaeo-climate to investigate ancestral distributions Map climate variables onto a finished phylogeny Can we use these to choose between equally parsimonious trees?