A Taxonomic Search Engine: Federating taxonomic databases using web services
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The taxonomic name of an organism is a key link between different databases that store information on that organism. However, in the absence of a single, comprehensive database of organism names, individual databases lack an easy mea...
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The taxonomic name of an organism is a key link between different databases that store information on that organism. However, in the absence of a single, comprehensive database of organism names, individual databases lack an easy means of checking the correctness of a name. Furthermore, the same organism may have more than one name, and the same name may apply to more than one organism.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The Taxonomic Search Engine (TSE) is a web application written in PHP that queries multiple taxonomic databases (ITIS, Index Fungorum, IPNI, NCBI, and uBIO) and summarises the results in a consistent format. It supports "drill-down" queries to retrieve a specific record. The TSE can optionally suggest alternative spellings the user can try. It also acts as a Life Science Identifier (LSID) authority for the source taxonomic databases, providing globally unique identifiers (and associated metadata) for each name.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The Taxonomic Search Engine is available at <url>http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/portal/</url> and provides a simple demonstration of the potential of the federated approach to providing access to taxonomic names.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e201ddba2a6d4ce9b4a6b8f4531f01f42022-12-21T23:20:38ZengBMCBMC Bioinformatics1471-21052005-03-01614810.1186/1471-2105-6-48A Taxonomic Search Engine: Federating taxonomic databases using web servicesPage Roderic DM<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The taxonomic name of an organism is a key link between different databases that store information on that organism. However, in the absence of a single, comprehensive database of organism names, individual databases lack an easy means of checking the correctness of a name. Furthermore, the same organism may have more than one name, and the same name may apply to more than one organism.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The Taxonomic Search Engine (TSE) is a web application written in PHP that queries multiple taxonomic databases (ITIS, Index Fungorum, IPNI, NCBI, and uBIO) and summarises the results in a consistent format. It supports "drill-down" queries to retrieve a specific record. The TSE can optionally suggest alternative spellings the user can try. It also acts as a Life Science Identifier (LSID) authority for the source taxonomic databases, providing globally unique identifiers (and associated metadata) for each name.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The Taxonomic Search Engine is available at <url>http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/portal/</url> and provides a simple demonstration of the potential of the federated approach to providing access to taxonomic names.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6/48 |
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| title | A Taxonomic Search Engine: Federating taxonomic databases using web services |
| title_full | A Taxonomic Search Engine: Federating taxonomic databases using web services |
| title_fullStr | A Taxonomic Search Engine: Federating taxonomic databases using web services |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Taxonomic Search Engine: Federating taxonomic databases using web services |
| title_short | A Taxonomic Search Engine: Federating taxonomic databases using web services |
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