Wednesday, June 22, 2011

iEvoBio 2011 Synopsis

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):
  1. Vistrails: workflow tool, awesome project by Claudio Silva
  2. Commplish: purpose is to use via API's, not with the web UI
  3. Phylopic: a database of life-form silouhettes, including an API for remote access, sweet!
  4. Gloome
  5. MappingLife: awesome geographic/etc data visualization interace on the web
  6. SuiteSMA: visualizating multiple alignments
  7. treeBASE: R interface to treebase, by Carl Boettiger
  8. VertNet: database for vertebrate natural history collections
  9. RevBayes: revamp of MrBayes, with GUI, etc. 
  10. Phenoscape Knowledge Base
    • Peter Midford lightning talk: talked about matching taxonomic and genetic data
  11. BiSciCol: biological science collections tracker
  12. Ontogrator 
  13. TNRS: taxonomic name resolution service
  14. Barcode of Life data systems, and remote access
  15. Moorea Biocode Project
  16. Microbial LTER's data
  17. BirdVis: interactive bird data visualization (Claudio Silva in collaboration with Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
  18. Crowdlabs: I think the site is down right now, another project by Claudio Silva
  19. Phycas: Bayesian phylogenetics, can you just call this from R?
  20. RIP MrBayes!!!! replaced by RevBayes (see 9 above)
  21. Slides of presentations will be at Slideshare (not all presentations up yet)          
  22. 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)! 
  23. Synopses of Birds of a Feather discussion groups: http://piratepad.net/iEvoBio11-BoF-reportouts

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