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At Reading Frank Bisby, Alistair Culham, Neil Caithness, Tim Sutton, Peter Brewer, Chris Yesson At Cardiff Alec Gray, Andrew Jones, Nick Fiddian, Nick Pittas, Xuebiao Xu, Richard White At Southampton Oliver Bromley At NHM Malcolm Scoble, Paul Williams, Shonil Bhagwat.
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At ReadingFrank Bisby, Alistair Culham, Neil Caithness, Tim Sutton, Peter Brewer, Chris Yesson At CardiffAlec Gray, Andrew Jones, Nick Fiddian, Nick Pittas, Xuebiao Xu, Richard White At SouthamptonOliver Bromley At NHMMalcolm Scoble, Paul Williams, Shonil Bhagwat A BBSRC e-Science Project
What are the goals of BDWorld? • Extensible problem solving environment for global biodiversity analysis • Distributed computing • Employ GRID technology • Resource location • Workflow design & validation
BdwCore Architecture
Request Core BGI Response Wrapper Resource Workflow Designer Metadata Workflow Manager Taxonomic Verification Implementation
Some relevant resource types: • Data sources: • Species 2000 ‘Catalogue of Life’ • Species Information Sources (SISs) • e.g. AVH, SpeciesAnalyst, RDG, CBIF, MBG...DIGIR, ABCD etc • Geographical • Boundaries of geographical & political units • Climate surfaces (Hadley, Paul Valdes' Palaeoclimate Data) • Genetic sequences (EMBL, local data) • Analytic tools: • Biodiversity richness assessment (WorldMap) • Bioclimatic modelling (Garp, CSM, Bioclim) • Phylogenetic analysis (Paup, clustalw, etc)
Bioclimatic Modelling Basics CBIF, MBG, SpeciesAnalyst, RDG, AVH…..
Climate preference or niche (GARP, CSM, BIOCLIM) summarised . . . Additional variables projected
Process Output Identify suitable database CBIF butterflies (Lepidoptera) database Data mining XML files Text file (preliminary) Data correction Text file (intermediate) Taxonomic validation Text file (final) Worldmap import Species distribution data file Minimum area set Biodiversity Conservation Assessment
Aglais,milberti,45.4,-123.35 Aglais,milberti,48.4833333333333,-123.383333333333 Aglais,milberti,49.05,-124.35 Aglais,milberti,49.1166666666667,-116.183333333333 Aglais,milberti,49.1166666666667,-119.666666666667 Aglais,milberti,49.1666666666667,-119.233333333333 Aglais,milberti,49.1833333333333,-120.083333333333 Aglais,milberti,49.1833333333333,-121.683333333333 Aglais,milberti,49.2333333333333,-124.583333333333 Aglais,milberti,49.35,-123.066666666667 WorldMap richness and minimum area set summarised visualise ...
Map climate variables onto a finished phylogeny • Can we use these to choose between equally parsimonious trees? • Use climate model as a character within a phylogenetic analysis • How do we code this? • How do we weight this? • Use molecular clocks, palaeo-geography and palaeo-climate to investigate ancestral distributions Using climate data in conjunction with phylogenies