OuroborosTree is a visual application for exploring relations between human nutrition and living organisms. It harmonizes, for the first time, environmental and nutritionist data from NCBI Taxonomy, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAOSTATS), the Swiss Food Composition Database, the IUCN Red List of threatened species, Wikidata and the GutFeeling KnowledgeBase (GFKB).
Over 23'000 open license images from Wikimedia and iNaturalist have been associated with individual taxa and can be reused in any open source project.
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The phylogenetic tree view allows the exploration of edible organisms organized by branches of the “tree of life”. You can highlight the tree’s branches based on parameters that play a role in the food choices of individuals and societies (diets, allergies...). Color codes identify taxa (tree branches) that the diet allows as food.
Observe how a diet distributes across the tree. Ketogenic diets, for instance, forbid all descendants of the Poaceae family. Halal and Kosher diets forbid insects, but allow eating honey from bees
Try combinations such as "Halal and Ketogenic". Click on the nodes of the tree to see illustrations and further information.
The network view explores the links between taxa of living organisms (species, genus, phylum...), the primary edibles they make or are killed for (fruits, meat), and complex edibles composed of other edibles, aka recipes ("Berner Platte", "Czech Potato Salad"...).
Click on the nodes of the network to see illustrations and further information.