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- For the science of classifying living things, see alpha taxonomy.
Taxonomy (from Greek verb tassein = "to classify" and nomos = law, science, cf "economy") was once only the science of classifying living organisms (alpha taxonomy), but later the word was applied in a wider sense, and may also refer to either a classification of things, or the principles underlying the classification. Almost anything, animate objects, inanimate objects, places, and events, may be classified according to some taxonomic scheme.
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uBio creates new XML Web Services
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400
A new set of webservices was added to the current collection. The new XML webservices can be called via HTTP GET and POST requests and will return XML data structures. This new version of web services can be easily embedded within any web-based application without having to deal with setting up SOAP clients.
Missouri Botanical Garden's Tropicos database is indexed in NameBank
Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400
uBio has indexed The Missouri Botanical Garden's (MOBOT) Tropicos database within NameBank. Indexing Tropicos allows uBio to provide a variety of tools and services to MOBOT such as enhanced LinkIT and FindIT applications as well as linkages to Tropicos from the uBio Portal. "W3TROPICOS provides new and improved access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST nomenclatural database and associated authority files."
uBio RSS is integrated within FishBase
Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400
uBio has partnered with FishBase to produce an application that monitors current publications available via Real Simple Syndication (RSS) for references to fish species. A link to this application is provided within FishBase species summaries.
American Society of Plant Taxonomists - Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.
Biodiversity and Biological Collection Databases - Information of interest to systematists and other organismic biologists such as biological collections, taxonomic files, directories and ListServ archives, computer programs, reports by standards bodies (IOPI, ASC, and SA2000), and access to on-line journals.
Meta Description: [ Devoted to information of interest to systematists and other biologists of the organismic kind. Within these pages you will find information about specimens in biological collections, taxonomic authority files, directories of biologists and links for hundreds of biodiversity and collection resour... ]
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Biognomen - A Linnaean taxonomy arranged in hyperlinked evolutionary trees. One can navigate through the hierarchy vertically, or follow a lineage horizontally at a particular level of the hierarchy.
Meta Description: [ A Linnaean taxonomy arranged to show the evolutionary relationships among groups. Hyperlinked evolutionary trees allow you to zoom in or out, or follow a particular branch. ]
BioNET - International - A global network of country-owned collaborative LOOPs to support national programs for biosystematics to support goals in areas such as sustainable development and pest management.
Classification Lab - A project examining the phylogenetic tree of life and all of its features, with information and pictures for every class and an interactive, dynamic hierarchy.
Meta Description: [ Sidwell Friends School (SFS) is a PK-12, co-educational Quaker day school with campuses in Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD. Founded in 1883, the School is a non-profit, tax-exempt institution governed by an independent Board of Trustees. ]
DELTA: Description Language for Taxonomy - A flexible format for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, classifications, and information-retrieval systems.
Meta Description: [ DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is a flexible format for
encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It can be used to
produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys,
classifications, and information-retrieval systems. ]
ETI World Taxonomist Database - Directory of specialists searchable by name, country, or specialization.
Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification - ETI is a non-governmental organisation in operational relations with UNESCO. Their mission is to develop scientific/educational computer-aided information systems, to improve general access to, and to promote use of taxonomic and biodiversity knowledge worldwide.
Meta Description: [ ETI BioInformatics is dedicated to improving on a global scale the quantity, quality and accessibility of biodiversity information on CD- ROMs and the Web. ]
Fairchild Tropical Garden Virtual Herbarium - Includes photos of more than 50,000 plant, palm, cycad and other cultivated tropical plants from Florida and taxonomic information on grasses, especially bamboos, and other economically important and interesting plants.
Meta Description: [ The Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Botanical Resource Center is a clearinghouse for botanical information and data. It has a huge virtual herbarium, thousands of plant pictures from all over the world, cladograms, keys, and databases too! ]
Glossary of Phylogenetic Systematics - An annotated, extensive hypertext glossary of the terminology of Phylogenetic Systematics, with a discussion and criticsm of mainstream Computer Cladistics.
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Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
Meta Description: [ Sponsored by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Page designed through the cooperative efforts of interagency ITIS Teams. Point of Contact: Dr. Michael Ruggiero 202-786-3117 ]
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NCBI Taxonomy Homepage - The NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
Meta Description: [ The NCBI Taxonomy database is a curated set of names and classifications for all of the organisms that are represented in GenBank. ]
Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy - National Science Foundation (USA) competition to support competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms.
Scalenet - Glossary - A short glossary explaining some of the terms used in taxonomy. From a site on scale insects.
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Science at the Natural History Museum - A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity.
Meta Description: [ The home page of the Natural History Museum (London)'s academic website. ]
Systema Naturae 2000 - An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authorative scientific literature.
Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow - About taxonomy and systematics at the University of Glasgow, with links to other internet resources on these subjects.
Tree of Life - A project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other.
Treebase - A relational database of phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers. Includes animals, plants, and fungi.
Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer - A networked information service for biological information resources, based upon the Taxonomic Name Server, a thesaurus of taxonomic information.
Meta Description: [ uBio is a networked information service for biological information resources. This service is based upon the Taxonomic Name Server (TNS), a thesaurus of taxonomic information. ]
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