DevNotes

Overview

For a general schematic of the open tree architecture, see this [architectural diagram] 1. The basic goal of this repo is provide web-service interfaces to the corpus of phylogenetic studies. The corpus is referred to as (phylesystem)[https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/phylesystem].

The phylesystem-api provides basic read/write access and format conversion. Search functionality is supplied by (oti)[https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/oti].

Side note (or slide note, if you prefer)

The slide presentation containing the [architectural diagram] 1 is posted at http://phylo.bio.ku.edu/slides/ot.html and it can be regenerated by running https://github.com/OpenTreeOfLife/phylesystem-api/blob/master/docs/build-presentations.sh)