Impacts of OneZoom

Testimonials

Prof. Sir John Beddington Chief scientific Adviser to the UK 2008-2013: "This project has enormous potential both as a tool for increasing public knowledge and engagement but also as an aid to research in Conservation and Biodiversity. It is technically sophisticated and the work to date is impressive."

Prof. Joel Cracraft American Museum of Natural History, on OneZoom: "This will revolutionize how we teach and understand the Tree of Life. It is an invaluable tool for communicating the grand scope of life's history."

Prof. David Hillis University of Texas at Austin: "The problem of visualizing an evolutionary tree for millions of species is a challenging one. OneZoom provides a creative solution that will be of great utility, especially for web-based representations of the Tree of Life."

Attendance at science festivals

  1. Imperial Festival 8-10 May 2015
  2. Cheltenham Science Festival 3-8 June 2014
  3. WowHow at the Oxford University Natural History Museum 15th March 2014
  4. Science Uncovered at the Nautral History Museum 27th September 2013
  5. Imperial Festival 2-4 May 2013

Public outreach display installations

  1. Beautiful Science at the British Library 20th February 2014 - 26th May 2014.
  2. Science and Aesthetics at MUT 19th April - 1st September 2013
  3. Simon Fraser University 18th March 2013, permanent feature
  4. The River Project, New York August 2014, permanent feature

Known use of OneZoom in other webpages and software

  1. birdtree.org
  2. birdtree.org (updated version)
  3. deepfin.org
  4. fishtree.org
  5. The Adaptive Evolution Database: ACAT1 Protein
  6. The Adaptive Evolution Database: amelogenin
  7. The Adaptive Evolution Database: endoglin
  8. FSYXW.com
  9. FSYXW.com forum
  10. Clickme on Github - An R inteface for OneZoom
  11. Another R inteface for OneZoom on Github (work in progress)
  12. OneZoom for genealogy (work in progress)
  13. Plant tree (latin only) for Professor Doug Soltis
  14. Plant tree (latin only - alternative layout)

Using OneZoom software in your webpage or at your exhibition? Please let us know so you can be listed here too.

Selected user opinions

  • Richard Grenyer University of Oxford: "Just to say how very much impressed - floored, even - I am with the OneZoom tool. I'd wanted to see something so simple to use as this since at least 1998"
  • Science visualisation.com "A Revolutionary Look at the Tree of Life ... Charles Darwin would be proud."
  • Michael Hanson, vice principal of the Scotts Valley High School in California, USA said "In my opinion, it [OneZoom] is the best visualisation of evolution that's out there for the lay person."
  • @sciencemuseum "We are just one tiny leaf on the tree of life. Watch 160 million years of mammal evolution"
  • @FractalMan "I teach evolution and fractals, and thanks to @OneZoomTree this just got much cooler!"
  • @SchoolScience "One Zoom Tree of Life - be amazed and RT to every biologist you know"
  • @jjunebrown "A beautiful organization of genetic relatedness in this new program - organized the way we think, not the way we read:"
  • @RichardDawkins "Zooming into the Tree of Life. Magnificent piece of software, brilliantly intuitive visualisation of the tree of life"
  • Media Consultant Phil Walder said about OneZoom "This seems to me like the perfect synthesis of new media."
  • Jason Saber kindly e-mailed to say "To have all this information so readily available is a wondrous achievement that one might have imagined would only ever exist in the realms of science fiction. It is such an engrossing display I consult it daily."
  • @caseybergman "Kudos to the @OneZoomTree team for making their cool software available as #opensource code at time of publication!"
  • Marco Valencia kindly e-mailed to say "I am very impressed by the onezoom project as a first of its kind learning tool with tremendous potential ... This is truly an incredible program that democratizes knowledge and makes it immediately tangible in a way that only years of study might have done in the past ... I hope to see this project evolve and become as standard a tool of knowledge and education as wikipedia is now."
  • Charles Pope kindly e-mailed with the subject "I Love OneZoom" to say "I can appreciate the value of this project to scientists and students and I have spent hours exploring the tree just for curiosity."
  • Adam Bartley (museum exhibition designer) kindly e-mailed to say "I wanted to congratulate the onezoom team on the amazing interface and reference resource that is Onezoom. Amazing job!"
  • @sciencemagazine "Tree of Life redesign with OneZoom, a Google Maps like approach to phylogenetic trees"
  • Jeannie Bartlett kindly e-mailed: "I LOVE your phylogenetic trees! I am an undergrad at Middlebury College, and my professor just referred us to them. Now not only am I using your tool, but I'm also writing a paper about it."
  • Frederick Lanni kindly wrote to say "I read about OneZoom in Science Magazine - TERRIFIC PROJECT!! Thank you. This is something that middle-school and high-school science classes should see and use regularly."
  • Milana (Imperial College Biology Undergrad) kindly wrote: “[OneZoom is] simply the most useful tool for understanding phylogenetic and evolutionary relationships.”
  • @redlipblenny Isabelle Côté "OneZoom - fractal explorer for the tree of life:18,000+ views on #PLOSBiology Teaching Bio101 will never be the same"
  • @david_curnick "Just discovered @OneZoomTree ! Such a cool and easy way to explore the tree of life. Check it out and find your species onezoom.org"
  • @troutio "Genius visualisation project mapping the entire tree of life into a single explorable diagram. http://www.onezoom.org/ @OneZoomTree #lostinbats"
  • @jessicapellien "@OneZoomTree one of the coolest things I've seen on the internet: http://www.onezoom.org/mammals.htm"
  • @GirlForScience "This site is so awesome, I'm just gonna spend the rest of my day zoomin' and clickin' away here."
  • Thomas Delattre kindly e-mailed to say "A friend of mine just sent me your paper about OneZoom, and now I'm so excited I can't concentrate on anything else.... Your idea of using fractal trees to do that is so revolutionary, and at the same time so obvious!"
  • @sauramaia "Gosh that's a bit beautiful MT @flexibeast: Awesome! OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer"
  • @Vadievi "There goes the afternoon : OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer"
  • Angelina (Imperial College Biology Undergrad) kindly wrote: “OneZoom has been incredibly helpful throught my first year course: biology of organisms … [OneZoom] gives you a complete picture of the tree of life that imprints in your memory … I don’t know how to explain the greatness of it … thank you for such a great invention”
  • @hbrinkschroeder "Is an educational time-waster possible? OneZoom"
  • It's Okay to be smart.com "I really love how they embrace the idea that the web is not made of electronic paper, and stuff like this lets us explore science in ways that we never could in books."
  • @Henners181 "@OneZoom this looks amazing! a fantastic resource with so much potential."
  • Jonathan Eisen ‏@phylogenomics "The Google Maps of Evolutionary Biology: OneZoom"
  • Peter Hayward ‏@animaloftheweek "Oh lord...amazing evolution-geek diversion. The growth animation is particularly pleasing to watch."
  • Ethan Nicolai ‏@VaedaSynapse "@OneZoomTree has to be one of the more underrated things I've come across in a long time."
  • @AustenE3 "Warning to #science lovers - productivity loss ahead: http://www.onezoom.org/tetrapods.htm.
  • @RoryJGalloway "Brilliant interactive website lets you explore tetrapod relationships, beautiful."
  • Lynn Wilhelm (US high school teacher) kindly wrote: “The OneZoom tree is a fantastic teaching tool for high schools. Students can use it as a resource for many activities in biology classes from evolution to classification. They love the zooming capabilities of the site and really enjoyed the links to Wikipedia pages for more information. I can almost hear the gasps of amazement when images become part of the tree. Thanks for a great tool.”
  • Nancy Lowe (Outreach Coordinator for Discover Life) kindly wrote: “Your OneZoom website is the best visualization of data on the web, bar none.... Years ago, attending a talk by Stephen Jay Gould, I asked Gould what the shape of a tree of life should be, what would it look like, and his answer wasn't satisfactory to me. I've thought about this problem for years, which is essentially a big data problem as well as one of finding the right visual concept. But you've done it. With fractals, of course! And my first thought was, why didn't I think of that?”

OneZoom as the cover image for PLoS Biology

Mainstream Media Coverage

  1. Science magazine
  2. BBC world service Science in Action
  3. ITV news
  4. Science Daily
  5. Science Daily further coverage
  6. Popular Science
  7. BBC Wildlife Magazine (January 2013)
  8. British Jounral of General Practitioners
  9. NRC-Handelsblad
  10. Thenakedscientists.com genetics podcast.
  11. SchoolScience.co.uk
  12. RichardDawkins.net
  13. teachersfirst.com
  14. National Education Association
  15. Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow
  16. 20minutos.es
  17. Science Codex
  18. ABC Spanish
  19. British Columbia News
  20. European Commission Resarch and Innovation
  21. Caracol Radio
  22. F1000
  23. visua.ly
  24. Metro News - Canada
  25. NTN24
  26. emol.com
  27. 33rd Square
  28. Policy Options (Canada)
  29. ScienceVisualization.com
  30. Planet Earth Online
  31. It's Okay to be smart.com
  32. omixon.com
  33. Visualoop.com
  34. Imperial College London
  35. University of Idaho
  36. Simon Fraser University
  37. Openhelix Blog
  38. British Library Blog
  39. Rod Page's Blog
  40. The Beast, the Bard and the Bot
  41. Inquirebotany.org
  42. Amazing science
  43. A reluctant Apostate Blog
  44. Coastal Pathogens
  45. alphagalileo.org
  46. Phys.org
  47. Phys.org further coverage
  48. Evolutionary Psychology Yahoo group
  49. RedOrbit
  50. treevis.net
  51. Imperial TV (STOIC)
  52. champagnewhisky.com
  53. champagnewhisky.com further coverage
  54. Kyle Yuan Blog at MIT
  55. Dr. Yan Wong personal blog
  56. PLoS Biologue
  57. CFAX1070 live interview
  58. Journal of Ecology Podcast
  59. Promega Connections
  60. Xatakaciencia.com
  61. Inventor's Corner
  62. ibest News
  63. Pinterest postings
  64. Big Times
  65. PLOS blogs further coverage
  66. Cabbages of Doom Blog
  67. Treeoflife.net.au
  68. British Library Blog
  69. Londonist.com
  70. All the dirt on gardening blog
  71. BBC Radio4 Saturday Review (20m 30s in)
  72. The Telegraph
  73. Design Week .co.uk
  74. The Guardian
  75. Wired
  76. The Lancet
  77. Brilliant Botany .com
  78. Neuo Science Stuff Blog
  79. British Library Press Release