Google refine

I've tried to refine the data and find the existing codes for each of the new species...The source I used is uBio FindIT - http://iphylo.org/~rpage/phyloinformatics/services/reconciliation_ubio.php, as suggested by our professor in our Phyloinformatics course. So I've updated the table that we are going to work with. Hopefully this will let us create a phylogenetic tree for some of the species. Unfortunately, the number of species without an ID code are still many: This pie chart shows the percentage of the new mammal species that are still without a unique ID: 57.9%. In our report we will analyze the importance of globally unique identifiers for species.

Data mining for our tree..

Dom and I, we have extracted all our information from our pdf paper into a csv file, however is seems like we're getting errors while following some steps... we're working on it...

...next step...google refining and working on the NEXUS code...

Google Earthing...

Dom and I, we created a KLM file and this is our result in Google Earth :) The red dots appearing in our map are representing our new mammal species since 1992 (source). They are not very clear in the video but, we can see that in certain areas (especially islands) there are many new species found. Once we have our data extracted..It is time to make a 3D Phylo-Tree!! :)

Hmmm...why hadn't I seen this option earlier?..

Testing if the graph's visuals work.. The graph is showing the number of new mammal species that were found in each order, since 1992. Aggregating by family:

More and more web pages and data...

I keep getting lost into new web pages...they all seem like they have loads of useful specie distribution related information, but I need so much time to look through them... I'll just bookmark them here for now and hopefully I will find the time to review the information until Friday.. NBN Gateway and BioMar

From Environmental Stats to Species Modelling...

I've almost managed to understand how a statistical prediction model works due to my Environmental Statistics report...pretty cool...but I can work on it only by giving me the R commands already in order...hehe...I'm not really a math major... so I'd rather just dive in the sea and look at all the strange species that live in there... However, once I've been managing to understand a bit about modelling and how well they can be used in different future predictions, I might connect that with our phyloinfromatics project and try to answer the question of: "How many new species will there be discovered in the next decade?"

The following graph, provided in the paper of Reeder et al. (2007) shows us the cumulative and decadal descriptions of taxonomically valid extant mammal species. It is a time series graph with some predictions in the number of species that could be discovered in the following decade. Potential taxonomic biases were calculated by the observed number of new species with the number of new species that we would expect. As seen in the graph, the trend in new species discoveries is increasing during time. Reeder et al. (2007) supports that these trends towards to new discovery description and redescription will continue, hence we expect at least 300 new species to be described in the next decade. (Source: D.M. Reeder, K.M. Helgen & D.E. Wilson (2007) "Global Trends and Biases in New Mammal Species Discoveries")

Random stuff...

I have not forgotten about my phyloinformatics project... I really want to do it and everything keeps coming in my way...boring stats report and case study vs. dissertation research and excitement ... well... searching for my possible dissertation lab mate - the Lumpsucker, I ran into this blog that also has some possibly interesting Taxonomy links that I should explore.. one of them seems really interesting... The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) I'll be exploring more with my friend Dom very soon.. Good night blog world..