Attractive visualization

[rvosa]

The current output is a Newick-formatted tree file where the leaves in the tree are process identifiers in the BOLD database. These are opaque to users. Mapping the IDs back to species names is trivial, but more can be done to generate attractive output. For example, deeper nodes could be annotated with the names of higher taxa (genus, family, order, etc.). Mappings can be provided to show which leaves correspond with which species in the Open Tree of Life. A wealth of potential decorations that can be attached to the tree are available in the underlying database or can be parsed out of the intermediate results (e.g. which species were 'exemplars'). This issue is considered 'done' if the following is accomplished:

• a sensible set of decorators is identified and attached to the tree
• a visualization is produced that is attractive (for outreach) and ideally interactive with links to applicable data resources

Most likely, the iTOL web application is the most suitable target platform to produce the final graph. (Hence, no tailor-made visualization code is needed.)