phylogeny vizbi 2011

@rdmpage @vizbi

TreeView

PHYLIP

MacClade PAUP

NJPLOT

Mature

Problem has been solved

Thank you

Any questions?

Trees suck…

…in ways that maps don’t

Maps are predictable

Navigation is predictable

Every pixel counts

Ground truth

Relative and absolute navigation

Latitude 42.363921Longitude -71.087763

Phylogeny has none of this

X

A

BC

D

Y

X

B

AD

C

Y

We can reorder Y

@broadinstitute

X

B

AD

C

Y

X is a partial order

X

B

AD

C

Y

X is a partial order

X: evolutionary distance

B

AD

C

Y

X: time

B

AD

C

Y

Y

X

Z?

What would third dimension represent?

Paloverde

@wellcometrust

Pretty, but…

Is 3D useful?

@systbiol

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ry d

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nce

X: species

Z: genes/copies

Y: la

titud

e

X:longitude

Z: evolutionary distance

@DavKidd @andrewxhill

@rdmpage

@andrewxhill

Touching the tree

@dr_pi

@kzelnio Think how great of a tool that could be at museumson a large flat screen at 4 year old height.

Dendroscope

Big trees

11 June 2003

“best viewed when enlarged to a 1.5-meter diameter”

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What’s next…

Geophylogenies

Touch

Zoomable viewers

http://iphylo.blogspot.com