Open Tree of Life browser

[Roderic D. M. Page]

I've released a new "toy", this time an interactive browser for the Open Tree of Life synthetic tree.

The browser is at https://iphylo.org/ott-viewer, the defalt view is the root of the tree of life, the "featured" link offers a few starting points. Navigation is by double-clicking on a node of interest, or searching by name.

If you've not come across it, The Open Tree of Life project https://tree.opentreeoflife.org/ is an ambitious attempt to construct a tree of life based on a global taxonomy, coupled with phylogenetic trees. I've always found their tree viewer to be frustrating to use, hence https://iphylo.org/ott-viewer. 

If nothing else, building this has given me a new found sense of just how much work centuries of taxonomy and decades of phylogenetics has achieved.

Regards,

Rod