"Walking the Tree of Life – Adventures in Phylogenetics"
summary
Builds an interactive cladogram explorer but runs into real constraints: integrated taxonomic information system spits many ambiguous common names and forces hundreds of ID lookups, Open Tree of Life gives fast batch MRCA queries but lacks common names, and Biopython + matplotlib only emit static PNGs so GUI interaction is missing. Prototype surfaces subspecies and extinct taxa clutter, reveals hybridization edge cases, and collides with the existing OneZoom feature that already visualizes lineage intersections.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 1:58Understanding phylogenetics
- 5:15Project goals and data issues
- 8:37Consulting with biologists
- 11:36Technical implementation
- 16:25Challenges in visualization
- 18:54Discovery and reflection
- 22:38Q&A session
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