I'm working on Tree of Life - Phylogeny of Chinese Vascular Plants. Besides the phylogeny, we also want to match the geo-referneces (their distribution information) of these sampled plants to the phylogeny tree, aiming to investigate the phylogenetic diveristy of these target plants. Likewise, we may also assemble other ecological facotrs (endemism, temperature, precipitation, etc.) to unveil the correlation between the ecological factors and evolutionary process.
- The phylogentic diversity is not corresponding to the species diversity.
- The ability of adaption of plants co-evolves with their phylogenetic relationships.
Parts of my data is not ready requiring screen and clean. They are DNA sequences, charasters, Excle tables, strings, and numbers.
Initially, I want to carpture key words out of Excel tables (like species names and their geographic coordinates). The based on the sampling list (by matching the species names), link all the attributive factors under each individual species.
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