BioNames: linking taxonomy, texts, and trees
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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.
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2013. BioNames: linking taxonomy, texts, and trees. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e54v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.54v1note This preprint is not peer-reviewed. You may wish to reference the subsequent peer-reviewed version of this article.
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The author declares there are no competing interests.
Author Contributions
Roderic D M Page conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper.
Funding
Funding for the initial web interface development was provided by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
