Fig. S1.

The Open Tree of Life workflow. External taxonomies (and synonym lists) are merged into the Open Tree Taxonomy, OTT. Published phylogenies are curated (rooted, and names mapped to OTT) and stored, with full edit history, in a GitHub repository. The source trees are decomposed into subproblems, and the loaded along with OTT into a common graph database. We traverse the resulting graph and extract a tree of life based on priority of inputs. Components with stars indicate the presence of application programming interfaces (APIs) to access data and services.