Tutorials

Below are a list of tutorials for a number of different applications using the services provided by the OpenTree of life packages and APIs.

Accessing OpenTree data using python

Basic information retrieval

• Getting, installing, and working with peyotl
• Getting information on studies/trees that intersect with a clade of interest
• Getting nexons/newicks for sets of trees in a clade of interest
• Searching the taxonomy
• Getting sections of synth tree or taxonomy

Miscellaneous mapping and analyses

• Conducting conflict analyses

Accessing OpenTree data using R

The rotl package (part of rOpenSci) wraps the OpenTree APIs to provide access to OpenTree data. See their documentation for details.