I've put the my Elsevier Challenge demo online. I'm still loading data into it, so it will grow over the next day or so. There's also the small matter of writing a paper on what's under the hood of the demo. Feel free to leave comments on the demo home page.
For some example of what the project does, take a look at Mitochondrial paraphyly in a polymorphic poison frog species (Dendrobatidae; D. pumilio), then compare it to the same publication in Science Direct (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.06.010).
2 comments:
Very Cool! Did you note the range polygon on http://iphylo.org/~rpage/challenge/www/uri/0dd44cbe1e130d8e4bd73130a7d139a1 ? Those frogs must a hard time surviving in northern Canada and Greenland :)
As for MySQL's crappy spatial support, have you tried PostGIS? It worked well for the few things that I tried it.
In this case it's my mistake, there's a stray value for this study, which I'll fix. MySQL's spatial support is poor, but it's not the cause of this errant polygon. To keep things simple I compute the convex hull of the set of localities. There are more elegant methods (see http://biodivertido.blogspot.com/2008/11/flickr-creating-polygons-out-of-points.html ), but that's for another time. I may try PostGIS, but the last thing I want to do right now is learn another database.
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