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.

Current versions

The most current versions of MIAPA artifacts such as checklist, ontologies, and tools are maintained on Github: https://github.com/evoinfo/miapa

• MIAPA checklist
• MIAPA ontology (OWL format)

Links

Active projects

• Karen Cranston and Elliot Hauser surveyed the community about the the MIAPA checklist terms
  • link to survey
  • resulting manuscript is in preparation on GitHub
• Elliott Hauser's 2012 Google Summer of Code project "NeXML to MIAPA mapping"
• Emily McTavish's Tree Annotation Vocabulary as resulting from the Phylotastic I hackathon. Includes a mapping to MIAPA draft checklist attributes.
• Steps towards a Minimum Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis (MIAPA) Standard workshop at TDWG 2011
  • This workshop produced a checklist of metadata elements for a proposed community survey.
• 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 at MIBBI
• CommentsOnOpenAnnotationDataModel
• MIAPA white paper at NESCent
• Arlin's proof-of-concept and an idea for a knowledge-capture experiment
• Leebens-Mack et al (2006) €œTaking the first steps towards a standard for reporting on phylogenies: Minimum Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis (MIAPA). OMICS: a Journal of Integrative Biology 10 (2): 231-7. doi:10.1089/omi.2006.10.231.