iEvoBio 2011 Synopsis

June 22, 2011

(This article was first published on Recology, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

We just wrapped up the 2011 iEvoBio meeting. It was awesome! If you didn't go this year or last year, definitely think about going next year.

Here is a list of the cool projects that were discussed at the meeting (apologies if I left some out):

Vistrails: workflow tool, awesome project by Claudio Silva
Commplish: purpose is to use via API's, not with the web UI
Phylopic: a database of life-form silouhettes, including an API for remote access, sweet!
Gloome
MappingLife: awesome geographic/etc data visualization interace on the web
SuiteSMA: visualizating multiple alignments
treeBASE: R interface to treebase, by Carl Boettiger
VertNet: database for vertebrate natural history collections
RevBayes: revamp of MrBayes, with GUI, etc.
Phenoscape Knowledge Base

BiSciCol: biological science collections tracker
Ontogrator
TNRS: taxonomic name resolution service
Barcode of Life data systems, and remote access
Moorea Biocode Project
Microbial LTER's data
BirdVis: interactive bird data visualization (Claudio Silva in collaboration with Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Crowdlabs: I think the site is down right now, another project by Claudio Silva
Phycas: Bayesian phylogenetics, can you just call this from R?
RIP MrBayes!!!! replaced by RevBayes (see 9 above)
Slides of presentations will be at Slideshare (not all presentations up yet)
A birds of a feather group I was involved in proposed an idea (TOL-o-matic) like Phylomatic, but of broader scope, for easy access and submission of trees, and perhaps even social (think just pushing a 'SHARE' button within PAUP, RevBayes, or other phylogenetics software)!