Collaborative Research: ABI Development: Cultivating a sustainable Open Tree of Life

150多年来，科学家们一直在根据植物、动物、真菌和微生物之间的关系对它们进行分类。开放生命之树项目创建了一个综合网站，总结了这些关系。这个网站使生物学家更容易找到以前发现的关于进化关系的知识，并获得作为这些知识基础的数据。理解生物之间的进化关系对于回答所有生物研究领域的问题至关重要。该网站用于改善农业、防治疾病、保护生物多样性、确保食品安全以及提高我们对生物学基本过程的理解的研究。开放生命之树网站还为学生和老师提供了整个生命之树的最新生物信息。该项目将为开放生命之树项目的核心添加几个功能，以使其可持续发展，并保持资源的更新。开放生命之树项目已经建立并部署了第一个全面的生命之树。该项目被个体生物学家和其他信息学项目所使用。该项目将通过向用户界面添加新功能来促进数据存储和管理，提高将新数据合并到树中的自动化过程的速度和可靠性，并修复核心基础设施的几个方面，使网站更容易维护，运行成本更低，从而确保开放生命之树的可持续性。这项工作的结果将在整个项目期间在开放生命之树网站（https://tree.opentreeoflife.org）上提供。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

For over 150 years, scientists have been classifying different plants, animals, fungi, and microbes based on how these organisms are related to one another. The Open Tree of Life project created a comprehensive website that summarizes these relationships. This website makes it easier for biologists to find previously discovered knowledge about evolutionary relationships and to obtain the data that underlies this knowledge. Understanding the evolutionary relationships between organisms is crucial to answering questions in all areas of biological research. The website is used in research that improves agriculture, fights diseases, conserves biodiversity, ensures food safety, and improves our understanding of basic processes in biology. The Open Tree of Life website also provides students and teachers with up-to-date biological information across the entire tree of life. This project will add several features to the core of the Open Tree of Life project to make it sustainable and to keep the resource up to date.The Open Tree of Life project has built and deployed the first comprehensive tree of life. That project is used by individual biologists and by other informatics projects. This project will ensure the sustainability of the Open Tree of Life effort by adding new features to the user interface that motivate data deposition and curation, improving the rate and reliability of automated procedures for incorporating new data into the tree, and fixing several aspects of the core infrastructure to make the site easier to maintain and cheaper to run. The results of this work will be available at the Open Tree of Life site (https://tree.opentreeoflife.org) throughout the project.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.