TreeBASE[1] was a repository of phylogenetic data published in scientific journals. In phylogenetic studies, research data are collected or generated, such as comparative observations (e.g. character state matrices or multiple sequence alignments) made on a set of taxa, metadata about these taxa, and the phylogenetic trees that are inferred to best describe the evolutionary relationships between the taxa.
Mission
editThe purpose of the TreeBASE project was to provide stable records and identifiers for these data, so that other workers can refer to their deposited data in their publication, and other scientists can locate the data and use them to verify the original research or to include or extend them in further analyses.
History and funding
editThe project was started in 1994,[2][3] with funding from the US National Science Foundation. After this prototype, a redesign was initiated under the CIPRES[4] project. This new version was released in March 2010 and has been supported by, among others, the pPOD project,[5] which funded the addition of a RESTful web service interface with CQL search facilities,[6] and National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), which hosted the database and web server.
Starting in Winter 2010, TreeBASE was reorganized and became associated with the Phyloinformatics Research Foundation[7]
In 2022, TreeBASE was taken offline due to security issues which were unable to be fixed with project resources; the future of the database is uncertain.[8]
References
edit- ^ "TreeBASE". Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ Sanderson, M. J.; M. J. Donoghue; W. Piel; T. Eriksson (1994). "TreeBASE: a prototype database of phylogenetic analyses and an interactive tool for browsing the phylogeny of life". American Journal of Botany. 81 (6): 183. JSTOR 2445447.
- ^ Piel, W. H.; M. J. Donoghue; M. J. Sanderson (2002). "TreeBASE: a database of phylogenetic knowledge". To the Interoperable "Catalog of Life" with Partners Species 2000 Asia Oceanea. Research Report from the National Institute for Environmental Studies (171): 41–47.
- ^ "CyberInfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research". Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ "processing PhylOData". Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ Vos, Rutger A.; Hilmar Lapp; William H. Piel; Val Tannen (2010). "TreeBASE2: Rise of the Machines". Nature Precedings. doi:10.1038/npre.2010.4600.
- ^ "Phyloinformatics Research Foundation". Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ "Thoughts on TreeBASE dying(?)". 11 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
