Ptree: Explore the Entire Tree of Life Interactively
Interactive Tree of Life
Ptree is an interactive phylogenetic tree of life that lets you explore the evolutionary relationships among all known species. It integrates data from major biodiversity databases like GBIF, NCBI, and GTDB, and overlays traits such as body size, diet, and conservation status. You can navigate from the root of life down to individual species, compare taxa, and visualize ecological interactions.
Ptree is created by Michael Dayah of Ptable and exists thanks to openly-licensed biodiversity data.
- culi
Very cool. Perhaps you've seen OneZoom[0] already which is purely based on phylogenetic data sourced from Open Tree of Life. OTOL has been around for a long time. The project aggregates phylogenetic data from thousands of studies and creates a massive synthetic tree.[1] It's neat because anyone can contribute. If you find a study not represented in there you can contribute the newick tree/annotation for it.
[1] https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/opentree/argus/ottol@378964/...
- dang
> Made by the creator of ptable.com, a popular interactive periodic table website around since 1997.
Discussed a few times over the years!
Interactive Periodic Table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27650576 - June 2021 (22 comments)
Dynamic Periodic Table (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495105 - July 2019 (21 comments)
Worlds Best Periodic Table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378346 - Aug 2012 (5 comments)
Dynamic Periodic Table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3199922 - Nov 2011 (20 comments)
Dynamic/Interactive Periodic Table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1193431 - March 2010 (2 comments)
- rhaps0dy
Super cool! I just learned about 'incertae sedis' from here—though I think these things should at least be in their kingdom (e.g. Naldaviricetes are clearly viruses no?)