Open Tree of Life Workshop

Led by Emily Jane McTavish and Mark Holder

The Open Tree of Life project provides an integrated set of tools and data resources to make phylogenetic knowledge more accessible across the diversity of life. Participants will learn to use the Open Tree of Life tools and data stores to evaluate and unite phylogenetic inferences to generate taxonomically complete synthetic trees, which they can apply to their individual research questions in evolutionary biology.

The focus of this workshop is demonstrating features of the Open Tree of Life’s infrastructure: services for adding dates to tree, constructing supertrees from arbitrary sets of trees, and performing generalized conflict analyses. While most of the services and tools demonstrated require only a browser to access, some will require access via a command line. The tools are accessible via Windows, Mac, or Linux devices. The content overlaps with the Open Tree workshop presented at SSB 2023 in UNAM, so we do not recommend this workshop if you attended that one.