Reboot
We need to reboot academia, at least for graduate training. I am speaking from the point of view of ecology/evolution (EEB). Why you ask? Because of the following line of reasoning:
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I was just at the Phylotastic hackathon in Tucson, AZ at the iPlant facilities at the UofA.
A problem that needs to be solved is getting the incrasingly vast phylogenetic information to folks not ...
Dealing with API tokens in R
In my previous post I showed an example of calling the Phylotastic taxonomic name resolution API Taxosaurus here. When you query their API they give you a token which...
taxize use case: Resolving species names when you have a lot of them
Species names can be a pain in the ass, especially if you are an ecologist. We ecologists aren’t trained in taxonomy, yet we of...