OneZoom
{{Short description|Website with tree of life visualizations}}
File:OneZoom All life (cropped).png
The OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer is a web-based phylogenetic tree software. It aims to map the evolutionary connection of all known life. As of 2023 it includes over 2.2 million species.{{Cite journal |last=Gross |first=Michael |date=2022-01-24 |title=A family tree of everything alive |journal=Current Biology |language=English |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=R55–R58 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.001 |s2cid=246242773 |issn=0960-9822|doi-access=free |bibcode=2022CBio...32..R55G }}{{Cite web |date=2021-12-20 |title=Click, zoom and explore the tree of all life forms on Earth |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/click-zoom-explore-tree-of-all-life-forms-earth-7682195/ |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}
Organisation
OneZoom was originally invented by James Rosindell{{Cite web |title=OneZoom team |url=https://www.onezoom.org/team.html |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=www.onezoom.org}} and is a charity registered in London.{{Cite web |title=ONEZOOM - Charity 1163559 |url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5067046 |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk |language=en-GB}} It is sponsored by individuals such as Richard Dawkins.{{Cite news |date=2016-05-24 |title=The gene's still selfish: Dawkins' famous idea turns 40 |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36358104 |access-date=2023-02-25}}
Tree of Life Explorer
The design is based on the pythagoras tree; beside a default spiral design there are other options, such as polytomy.{{Cite journal |last1=Wong |first1=Yan |last2=Rosindell |first2=James |date=2021-12-13 |title=Dynamic visualisation of million-tip trees: The OneZoom project |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13766 |journal=Methods in Ecology and Evolution |language=en |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=303–313 |doi=10.1111/2041-210X.13766 |s2cid=245161167 |issn=2041-210X|hdl=10044/1/93008 |hdl-access=free }}{{Cite book |last1=Gross |first1=Alan G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZZHDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22OneZoom%22&pg=PA118 |title=The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities |last2=Harmon |first2=Joseph E. |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-046592-6 |language=en}}
Leaves and nodes provide links to other websites, such as Wikipedia, Encyclopedia of Life or the NCBI taxonomy browser. The leaves representing single species are colour-coded according to their IUCN extinction risk, with red indicating a threatened species, black representing a recently extinct species, and grey representing species with unknown extinction risk.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.onezoom.org/life.html/@=304358?img=best_any&anim=flight#x1156,y522,w0.2693 OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer]
- [https://www.upr.org/show/undisciplined/2021-12-23/undisciplined-the-evolution-of-evolution Interview with Luke Harmon in Utah Public Radio]
Category:Charities based in London
Category:Phylogenetics software
Category:Visualization software
Category:Tree of life (biology)