Open Tree of Life

Open Tree of Life
Available inEnglish
URLopentreeoflife.org
Commercialno
Registrationnot required
LaunchedSeptember 2015
Current statusactive
Content license
BSD 2-clause (FreeBSD)[1]

The Open Tree of Life is an online phylogenetic tree of life – a collaborative effort, funded by the National Science Foundation.[2][3] The first draft, including 2.3 million species, was released in September 2015.[4] The Interactive graph allows the user to zoom in to taxonomic classifications, phylogenetic trees, and information about a node. Clicking on a species will return its source and reference taxonomy.

The tree of life at the node Eukaryota
  1. ^ "OpenTreeOfLife License".
  2. ^ Hinchliff CE, Smith SA, Allman JF, Burleigh JG, Chaudhary R, Coghill LM, et al. (October 2015). "Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112 (41): 12764–9. Bibcode:2015PNAS..11212764H. doi:10.1073/pnas.1423041112. PMC 4611642. PMID 26385966.
  3. ^ "Assembling, Visualizing, and Analyzing the Tree of Life". National Science Foundation (NSF). 11 March 2011. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  4. ^ Pennisi E (21 September 2015). "First comprehensive tree of life shows how related you are to millions of species". Science Magazine.