Files fixed

Peter Foster at The Natural History Museum discovered some glitches in the source tree files (extra pairs of parentheses around some trees, duplicated taxon names in a few others). We've fixed these and uploaded new files (the links on the web site now point to these file). Not sure if these will affect the results, but if you're building a tree you may want to grab the latest copy of the data sets.

Hennig86 version of MRP matrix

For users of TNT we've uploaded a copy of the MRP matrix in MRP format. You can grab a copy here here

Bird supertree project - "Open Source" phylogenetics

Black Browed Albatross
Originally uploaded by QuestingBeast

Today is the day Katie Davis and I are launching the Bird Supertree Project. Partly an effort to distribute the task of building the tree, partly an experiment in "open source phylogenetics", we're curious (if not anxious) to see how this works out.