The Open Tree of Life project constructs a comprehensive, dynamic, and digitally available tree of life by synthesizing published phylogenetic trees along with taxonomic data. Open Tree of Life provides web-service application programming interfaces (APIs) to make the tree estimate, unified taxonomy, and input phylogenetic data available to anyone. Here, we describe the Python package opentree, which provides a user friendly Python wrapper for these APIs and a set of scripts and tutorials for straightforward downstream data analyses. We demonstrate the utility of these tools by generating an estimate of the phylogenetic relationships of all bird families, and by capturing a phylogenetic estimate for all taxa observed at the University of California Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve.[Evolution; open science; phylogenetics; Python; taxonomy.]

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OpenTree：用于访问和分析开放生命树数据的 Python 包

开放生命树项目通过综合已发表的系统发育树和分类数据，构建了一个全面、动态且数字可用的生命树。Open Tree of Life 提供网络服务应用程序编程接口 (API)，使任何人都可以使用树估计、统一分类法和输入系统发育数据。在这里，我们描述 Python 包 opentree，它为这些 API 提供了一个用户友好的 Python 包装器，以及一组用于直接下游数据分析的脚本和教程。我们通过对所有鸟类科的系统发育关系进行估计，并捕获在加州大学默塞德春池和草原保护区观察到的所有类群的系统发育估计，证明了这些工具的实用性。开放科学；系统发育学；Python; 分类。]