For Your Biologists: Lifemap

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Link: Lifemap

 

Lifemap is an interactive tool to explore the tree of life. The concept used in Lifemap is similar to the one used in cartography with tools like Google Maps© or Open Street Maps: exploring is done by zooming and panning.

 

The current tree contains 802639 species: 3733 Archaea, 277426 Bacteria and 521480 Eukaryotes. It is based on the taxonomy publised by the NCBI and updated regularly.

 

All the nodes in the tree are clickable. It displays information (description and picture) concerning the taxa (retrieved from the Wikipedia page, if any)...