This originally was a mirror site of TreeBASE with the goal of making it easier to find studies (see bottom of page). With the release of TreeBase II, I stopped maintaining this. However, people can still have trouble searching TreeBASE. Bill Piel, TreeBASE's long-term guardian and tender, mentioned that TreeBASE sends a sitemap to Google, so I made a simple custom search in Google for this.

Note that when you get to the search results and then click through to TreeBASE, you'll need to click on the second row of tabs to get to the object you want. For example, you might end up at a list of taxa. If you want the tree, click on the Trees tab (perhaps obvious to you, it wasn't for me).

Deprecated I've stopped the info below with the release of TreeBase II

TreeBASE is a site for depositing phylogenetic topologies (branch lengths are not stored). There was a mirror of TreeBASE at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, but this seems to be down (first noticed Feb. 2008, last checked July 2009 -- opening screen works, but no search possible). I needed to download TreeBASE to search within its files (the data matrices don't seem to be indexed by Google or other search engines) and so already had a de facto mirror. I just added some scripts to download new files daily, stuck them in a very simple database, and made a basic front end. The advantage of this is that search engines can now go into the files themselves, and there is basic browsing of a table of information (below). The mirror is also backed up in case anything happens to the official site. Taxa aren't matched up to lists of species (for that, see Rod Page's TBMap or Duhong Chen et. al's Phylofinder), though I could add something like that later [the advantage of this site over those other ones is that you can get at the tree files, but they're worth checking out]. I don't want to invest more than a couple of hours in this, though, as there have been years of work put into an official successor to TreeBASE, which should be much more useful once it is released. Dryad might also become a great repository for trees, especially trees calibrated to time (the most useful ones for many studies).

This mirror now has 1899 studies and 3735 matrices. The most recent matrix in the mirror is from Mayer, V. and H. Voglmayr. 2009. Mycelial carton galleries of Azteca brevis (Formicidae) as a multispecies network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, in press.
, which was put in TreeBASE 938.97 days ago

In the table below, you can click on a heading to sort by it. Click again to reverse the search order. Click on an option next to the matrix ID to go the locally-hosted file. Remember that this is a personal project, not an official mirror, so verify data before use, don't send angry emails about problems to NESCent or Bill Piel, etc. You can download all the files contained in this TreeBase mirror as a zipped directory.