What is “phyloinformatics”?

Linking biodiversity data together

Apomys datae

Apomys specimen

How do we integrate these data?

Why integrate?

Learn stuff we don’t know

• There are known knowns, things we know that we know

• There are known unknowns, things we now know we don’t know

• But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know

Unknown knowns

Things we know …without knowing that we know

Melissotarsus insularis

Melissotarsus insularis no hit

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Melissotarsus sp. BLF m1DQ176312

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No one source has all the answers

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Single source

Many sources

Combine sources

ispecies.org

Linking

• Finding information about organisms

• Linking together in “mashups”

Geography

@rdmpage

@andrewxhill

Geography

• Species distributions

• Geophylogenies

Taxonomy

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Names can change…Leptodactylus fuscus (Schneider)

1799 Rana fusca Schneider1802 Rana typhonia Sonnini & Latreille1803 Rana typhonia Daudin1824 Rana sibilatrix Wied1826 Leptodactylus typhonius Fitzinger1841 Cystignathus typhonius Dumeril & Bibron1843 Leptodactylus typhonius Fitzinger1858 Cystignathus fuscus Günther1882 Leptodactylus typhonius Boulenger1927 Leptodactylus sibilatrix Müller1935 Leptodactylus sibilatrix Parker1968 Leptodactylus fuscus Heyer

Taxonomy as a source of data

“Dark taxa”

Classification

http://synthesis.eol.org/media/treemap/

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

Taxonomy

• Names

• Synonyms

• Classifications

• Visualisation

Phylogeny

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Rate of growth of phylogenetic knowledge

Number of papers with “molecular” and “phylogeny” in Web of Science

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@dr_pi

Phylogeny

• Finding a phylogeny for a group of organisms

• Displaying on the web (visualisation)

Data mining

Text mining

Morphological and molecular description of Haematoloechus meridionalis n. sp. (Digenea: Plagiorchioidea: Haematoloechidae) from Rana vaillanti brocchi of Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Halipegus eschi n. sp. (Digenea: Hemiuridae) in Rana vaillanti from Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica

Haematoloechus danbrooksi n. sp. (Digenea: Plagiorchioidea) from Rana vaillanti from Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico

What do crustaceans live on?

Greenplants

Bacteria

FungiVertebrates

Arthropods

What do insects live on?

Greenplants

Bacteria

FungiVertebrates

Arthropods

Data mining

• Extracting information from the literature

• Extracting information from databases

The End