Making the Tree of Life Accessible for Research This is a 20-minute overview with links to screencasts and demos, providing an introduction to the project and to the upcoming 2 nd hackathon (Jan 28 to Feb 1, 2013, Tucson, AZ). A project of the NESCent HIP (hackathons, interoperability, phyogenies) working group.

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) RE-USE OF TREES Producers Consumers (re-users) Repositories “Most attempts at re-use seem to end in disappointment” [1] [1] Stoltzfus, et al., 2012, “Sharing and re-use of phylogenetic trees (and associated data) to facilitate synthesis”,

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) USE CASE: LEAF VEIN EVOLUTION R.L. Walls with Linnaeus aextoxicaceae/aextoxicon/aextoxicon_puntatum anacardiaceae/anacardium/anacardium_excelum anacardiaceae/rhus/rhus_glabra annonaceae/dugetia/dugetia_furfuraceae... Phylomatic Input list from Walls, 2011 APG framework with 1566 taxa 98-species tree of Walls, 2011 ?

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) THE “TREE OF LIFE” =  Some big trees *  4,500 mammal species  55,473 angiosperm species  1,827 angiosperm taxa  800 fish families  16,000 taxa in ToLWeb  73,060 eukaryotic species  400,000 prokaryotic 16S rDNAs  250,000 species NCBI taxonomy  And other trees not listed * Proper phylogenies as well as phylogeny-based taxonomic hierarchies

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW DataOperations User Controller Rectify Names (TNRS) NameBanks Find matching treesSource treesGraft missing taxaPrune extra taxaTranslate formatsGet branch lengthsCalibrations Species1 Species2 Species3 condition1 condition2 Species1 Species2 Species3 condition1 condition2 Phylotastic

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) PHYLOTASTIC  Phy· lo· tas· tic/fī lō ˈ t ă s tĭk/ 1. Adjective: providing computable, convenient and credible access to expert knowledge of the phylogeny of species 2. Noun: an open-source project of HIP* to prototype and disseminate a distributed, web-services- based phylotastic system  Synonyms:ToL-o-matic  Web home: * Hackathons, Interoperability, Phylogenies, a NESCent working group

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) HACKATHON #1, JUNE 4 TO NESCENT  Teams:  TNRS - taxonomic name resolution  TreeStore - triple store with REST API  Architecture - controllers, interfaces, pruners  Branch lengths - scaling trees using chronograms  Shiny - other demos and cool front-end stuff  30 participants  high diversity  2 remote sites

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) PHYLOTASTIC.ORG It’s all open source Screencasts & live demonstrations

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) SCREENCAST: SCRIPTABLE PRUNER, WEB FORM   YouTube video at (3 min)  Web form invokes URL API, like this:  wg.nescent.org/script/phylotastic.cgi?species=Felis+silvestris%2C+Canis+lupus%2C+Cavi a+porcellus&tree=mammals&format=newick wg.nescent.org/script/phylotastic.cgi?species=Felis+silvestris%2C+Canis+lupus%2C+Cavi a+porcellus&tree=mammals&format=newick  So, you can run it with curl  Or with a simple Perl script: #!/usr/bin/perl –w my $base = " my ( $tree, $taxa ) $taxa =~ s/[ _]/+/g; $taxa =~ s/,/%2C/g; system( "curl \"$base?species=$taxa&tree=$tree&format=newick\" > out.tre; open out.tre" ); exit; Rutger Vos

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) SCREENCAST: MESQUITE-O-TASTIC   YouTube screencast at (3 min)  Installable Mesquite module is here: I  Peter Midford NESCent Arlin Stoltzfus NIST

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) RECONCILIOTASTIC  Reconcile-tree problem  Very common use-case  Inputs are gene tree, species tree  Gene tree: easy to get  Species tree: hard to get  Approach (see Reconciliotastic demo at  Load gene tree ( with NCBI identifiers embedded in labels)  Compute species list  Extract identifiers from labels  Map IDs to species sources via NCBI web service  Get species tree phylotastically  Reconcile gene tree and species tree using Zmasek’s SDI library

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) ROLE OF TNRS IN PHYLOTASTIC (BRIEF) 40 species auto-extract species names from text Riek, 2011 (Mammalian Biology 76(1):3- 11) Manually key in species list from tree image 36 species + 2 extras* 36 species Phylotastic * named in text but not used in phylogenetic analysis 40 species Phylotastic Copy & paste species named in Table 1 33 species Phylotastic 5 minutes <1 minute 12 minutes Hours or days

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) ROLE OF TNRS — MORE DETAIL  screencast: (7 min)  Riek, 2011 (case study)  Cool demo:  PDF  auto-extracted names  tree  What Taxonomic Name Resolvers do  What the phylotastic TNRS team did  Using the Taxosaurus URL API  phalophus+monticola TNRS team Naim Matasci iPlant Gaurav Vaidya U. Colorado Siavash Mirarab UT Austin

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) THE OTHER KIND OF DATING WITH FOSSILS r8s, pathd8, Multidivtime Calibrating a tree using fossil timepoints

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) PHP 11 studies >4,000 trees 6,973 taxa 620,868 leaves DateLife engine (R, FastRWeb, Rserve) DateLife engine (R, FastRWeb, Rserve) DATELIFE

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) CURRENT STATUS - WYSIWYG There are some holes We haven’t put the pieces together yet The interfaces are unstable Branches could shift without warning You might crash

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) WHAT’S NEXT?  Phylotastic hackathon #2 (Jan 2013, AZ)  Themes  Integration – get components to work together  Use-cases – give users what they want  More Shiny Stuff — make it look good  Your idea here  To apply   More partners & sponsors

Latest version of this file: (ppt) or (PDF) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS   Send feedback to Arlin Stoltzfus HIP Leadership Team Participants Sponsors