We just wrapped up the 2011 iEvoBio meeting. It was awesome! If you didn’t go this year or last year, definitely think about going next year.

Here is a list of the cool projects that were discussed at the meeting (apologies if I left some out):

  • Vistrails: workflow tool, awesome project by Claudio Silva
  • Commplish: purpose is to use via API’s, not with the web UI
  • Phylopic: a database of life-form silouhettes, including an API for remote access, sweet!
  • Gloome
  • MappingLife: awesome geographic/etc data visualization interace on the web
  • SuiteSMA: visualizating multiple alignments
  • treeBASE: R interface to treebase, by Carl Boettiger
  • VertNet: database for vertebrate natural history collections
  • RevBayes: revamp of MrBayes, with GUI, etc. 
  • Phenoscape Knowledge Base
  • Peter Midford lightning talk: talked about matching taxonomic and genetic data
  • BiSciCol: biological science collections tracker
  • Ontogrator 
  • TNRS: taxonomic name resolution service
  • Barcode of Life data systems, and remote access
  • Moorea Biocode Project
  • Microbial LTER’s data
  • BirdVis: interactive bird data visualization (Claudio Silva in collaboration with Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
  • Crowdlabs: I think the site is down right now, another project by Claudio Silva
  • Phycas: Bayesian phylogenetics, can you just call this from R?
  • RIP MrBayes!!!! replaced by RevBayes (see 9 above)
  • Slides of presentations will be at Slideshare (not all presentations up yet)          
  • A birds of a feather group I was involved in proposed an idea (TOL-o-matic) like Phylomatic, but of broader scope, for easy access and submission of trees, and perhaps even social (think just pushing a ‘SHARE’ button within PAUP, RevBayes, or other phylogenetics software)! 
  • Synopses of Birds of a Feather discussion groups: http://piratepad.net/iEvoBio11-BoF-reportouts