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PhyloCommons is a community-edited, annotated repository of phylogenetic trees. It simplifies the reuse of published trees and aggregates knowledge about each tree that can be used to inform evolutionary analyses.

This is an alpha release; PhyloCommons may change rapidly before a stable version is released.

PhyloCommons uses semantic web technologies including RDF to enable quick, efficient reuse of trees. PhyloCommons leverages the open source BioPython project to convert trees in various formats into RDF. These trees are then stored in Virtuoso, a database optized for RDF storage. This makes common tasks such as querying for specific trees based on metadata (year published, reconstruction method) or creating subtrees from a list of taxa very efficient.

Make PhyloCommons better - you can contribute to PhyloCommons by:

PhyloCommons builds on tools that were developed at two Phylotastic hackathons.

View the list of contributors.

PhyloCommons is open source and is available on GitHub.

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