BioNames: linking taxonomy, texts, and trees
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Studies, Taxonomy, Zoology
- Keywords
- database, taxonomy, nomenclature, data integration, phylogeny
- Copyright
- © 2013 Page
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Cite this article
- 2013. BioNames: linking taxonomy, texts, and trees. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e54v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.54v1
Abstract
BioNames is a web database of taxonomic names for animals, linked to the primary literature and, wherever possible, to phylogenetic trees. It aims to provide a taxonomic "dashboard" where at a glance we can see a summary of the taxonomic and phylogenetic information we have for a given taxon and hence provide a quick answer to the basic question "what is this taxon?" BioNames combines classifications from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and GenBank, imagery from the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), animal names from the Index of Organism Names (ION), and bibliographic data from multiple sources including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and CrossRef. The user interface includes display of full text articles, interactive timelines of taxonomic publications, and zoomable phylogenies. It is available at http://bionames.org.
Author Comment
This is the preprint of a submission which is currently under review in PeerJ.
