What abilities should a phylogenetic visualisation tool have? What is important when you have so many tips (OTUs) that it is too big to print out or even scroll through on the screen? I have several pieces of research in this last category. In no particular order here are some things that seem important to…
Tag: large trees
20,000 leaves on my tree
Apologies to Jules Verne, but on 30.10.07 there were 20,363 Metazoan SSU rDNA accession numbers in the Silva 92 database. My immediate questions- can a reliable phylogeny be constructed from this by a biologist with average computing resources? Can the resulting tree be informative (or is it too big to get any meaningful information onto…