MIAPA

This serves as a web home and central hub for resources related to developing and deploying a Minimal Information for a Phylogenetic Analysis (MIAPA) standard.

Links

Active projects

• Steps towards a Minimum Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis (MIAPA) Standard workshop at TDWG 2011
• MIAPA Draft RFC
• plan for a PhyloRelevantLiteratureSurvey
• Conference Plan 2011
• Tree Best Practices, article in progress for BMC, based largely on TDWG report
• MIAPA Survey on barriers to re-use of phylogenies and associated data and metadata
  • Reuse Cases
  • Barriers to reuse -- from user stories collected by the survey team
  • Reuse Barriers -- Hilmar's list regarding TreeBASE submissions
• MIAPA Demonstration Project in the Leebens-Mack lab, spring 2011
• The PhyloWays list of reference workflow annotations (papers with extracted workflow information)

Resources

• There is an email list for discussion of MIAPA. Please consider joining if you would like to play an active role in developing and supporting a minimal-information checklist for phylogenetic studies.
• MIAPA white paper at NESCent
• Arlin's proof-of-concept and an idea for a knowledge-capture experiment
• Leebens-Mack, et al, 2006