Talk I gave as a "provocateur" at a NSF Ideas Lab on the tree of life

1. @rdmpage
Late night thoughts of a jet-
lagged phylogeneticist
http://iphylo.blogspot.com

2. Why aren’t we there yet?

3. http://vimeo.com/26210611
There is no “map of life”

6. @rdmpage

7. Can we have a set of coordinates
for the tree of life?

8. Seeing the forest

10. I want a Flickr for phylogeny

13. @blaiseaguera

15. (data from http://phylota.net and GenBank)
My tree
Trees like this
Where is this tree?
Other trees near here

16. Beyond trees

18. What do insects live on?
Host info
from
GenBank
sequence

19. What lives on insects?

20. http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2011/03/visualising-symbiome-hosts-parasites.html

21. Connecting the tree to other
data

22. The Semantic web:
“The future of the web…
and always will be” –
Peter Norvig

24. There are only three numbers
in computer science:
0, 1, n
@stefanomaz
http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/304/

25. Links built by community,
editable, versioned

26. Wikis

27. GeneWiki
Huss et al. 2008 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175

28. http://iphylo.org/linkout

29. When building shared resources
carrots beat sticks

30. Carrots beat sticks

35. To build community resource ensure
you have an answer for this:
“what’s in it for me?”