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Adding new taxa to the tree

• We need to locate example studies, gather requirements
  • Ask the curators
  • SQL query: Find studies with currently unmapped tips
  • SQL query: Find studies where tips that are species names have been mapped to genus or higher
• A curator will want to add some number of taxa so that they can be OTUs for tips that aren't currently mapped
• Each taxon to be added needs
  • Parent taxon (parent name + context name; or parent OTT id)
  • Rank designation
  • Reference (accession number - many possible idspaces - or URL)
• They need to swear on a stack of holy books that the taxon isn't already present...
• Taxon gets an id somehow
• Taxon is installed in Phylografter so that it can be used for further OTU matches
• Taxon finds its way into github, and from there to next (monthly?) version of OTT, and from there to taxomachine, treemachine, and phylografter...

Adjacent projects

• Performance of OTU matching page in Phylografter
• Revamp the OTU matching UI for usability and human efficiency
• Tip label parsing (regexp / edit-by-example ideas?)
• Test harnesses for both OTT and Phylografter...
  • Smallish sub-taxonomy for scripted testing purposes ?