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Using Open Tree of Life web-services |
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See Luna Luisa Sanchez-Reyes' Open Tree with R tutorial for a very nice introduction of how to efficiently use the rotl package and DateLife for interacting with Open Tree's web services.
Install instructions
Getting a tree of all bird families
Getting a tree for GBIF records
Dating synthetic trees
Our tree curation tool has a conflict viewer that allows you to compare a tree to the Open Tree Taxonomy or the Open Tree Synthetic tree. We are in the process of generalizing this feature so that biologists can compare any tree to any other tree. These trees will need to be mapped to the Open Tree Taxonomy.
Our current API is documented at here
SSB 2023
SSB 2020
Berkeley Feb 2020
Emily Jane McTavish wrote a tutorial here covering some ways to use trees from Open Tree with geographic range data from GBIF.