Welcome to the Phylogenetics web

Welcome to the website of the TDWG Interest Group on Phylogenetics Standards.

At present (Fall 2008), the Interest Group is in the process of being established. A first workshop was held at the 2008 TDWG Annual Meeting in Perth/Fremantle, Australia. A charter is being drafted by Nico Cellinese and Hilmar Lapp. The workshop also resulted in a number of initial ideas for task groups, and was followed by a symposium during the main conference ( (see Session# 7 of the conference program) with six presentations covering needs for and obstacles caused by a lack of appropriate standards, as well as opportunities offered by standards emerging in the field.

Furthermore, a subset of the workshop participants are drafting a working group proposal for the EoL-sponsored Biodiversity Synthesis Center (BioSynC).

We greatly welcome participation in any of the above and other activities. There is a mailing list (tdwg-phylo) open to anyone. If you have ideas for any of the above topics or would like to participate in whatever role, please get in touch with us - we would love to hear from you.

Links and Resources

• 2008 Workshop: PhylogeneticsStandardsWorkshop
• Mailing list: tdwg-phylo

Acknowledgments

The workshop and symposium at the 2008 TDWG Annual Meeting in Perth/Fremantle was co-sponsored by the Biodiversity Synthesis Center (BioSynC/EOL), the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent, NSF# EF-0423641), and TDWG.

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