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Biodiversity databases-Species2000,Species

analyst,NBII,TOF

K.Akila,Lecturer,Dept.of Bioinformatics,

Jamal Mohamed College,Trichy-20.

[email protected]


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Home page


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About species 2000

The goal of the Species 2000 projectis to create a validated checklist of allthe world's species (plants, animals,

fungi and microbes),one for eachgroup of organisms in the name ofGlobal species database.

Each database covers all knownspecies in the group, using aconsistent taxonomic system.


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The participating databases arewidely distributed throughout theworld and currently number 52.

The programme in partnership with theIntegrated Taxonomic Information system (Iof North America currently produces the

Catalogue of Life. This is used by theGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIFand Encyclopedia of Life (EoL) as thetaxonomic backbone to their web portals.
http://www.itis.gov/http://www.catalogueoflife.org/http://www.gbif.org/http://www.eol.org/http://www.eol.org/http://www.gbif.org/http://www.catalogueoflife.org/http://www.itis.gov/


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Species 2000 established byIUBS,ICSU,CODATA and IUMS.

It is endorsed by UNEP(united nations ofenvironmental program).

It gives the information about Viruses, Bacteria,

Corals, Molluscs, Crustacea, Diptera, IchneumonWasps, Moths & Butterflies, Curculionid Beetles,Fishes, Birds, Mammals, Fungi, Cacti, Palms,Legumes, Umbellifers and Fossil Plants.


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Architecture of sp2000


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Species analyst[February17, 2001]

The Species Analyst based at theUniversity of Kansas Natural History Museum an"is a research project developing standards

and software tools for access to the world's

natural history collection and observationdatabases. Goals: The Species Analyst is a research

project developing standards, agreementsand software tools facilitating the discovery,

exchange, use, and analysis of naturalhistory specimen records and observations.
http://www.nhm.ukans.edu/http://www.nhm.ukans.edu/


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Natural history collections are a valuable resourcethat combined together, provide approximately 3billion records documenting the global distribution of

species over the last 300 years or so. The standards and software developed on the SpeciesAnalyst project provides a mechanism for combiningmost of theses collection databases into a single,coherent, and readily searchable virtual database.

The Species Analyst creates a Virtual World Museumthrough the integration of data from dozens ofinstitutions, dramatically increasing researchefficiency.

The Species Analyst began as a project of the North

American Biodiversity Information Network (NABIN),which is sponsored by the North AmericanCommission for Environmental Cooperation (NACEC).


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NBII

The National Biological Information Infrastructure(NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to provideincreased access to data and information on thenation's biological resources.

The NBII links diverse, high-quality biologicaldatabases, information products, and analyticaltools maintained by NBII partners and othercontributors in government agencies, academicinstitutions, non-government organizations, and

private industry.


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NBII partners and collaborators also work on newstandards, tools, and technologies that make iteasier to find, integrate, and apply biologicalresources information.


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NBII, managed by the Bioinformatics office atUSGS, implements a fully digital, interactive,and distributed system that makes available

scientifically reliable biological data,information, and tools, and helps providecollaborative work environments.

The NBII is a federation of federal, state, local,

non-governmental organizations, universities,and more.


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It helps enable the discovery, organization, andintegration of natural science data and information.It help coordinate various biological informaticsprojects, and help researchers become aware of thetypes of projects and datasets that might serve theirneeds.

It also help create standards, protocols, and toolsetc., to improve the harvesting, integration, andvisualization of data and information.

provide multiple avenues of access.


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Tree of Life

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborativeeffort ofbiologists from around the world. On morethan 9000 World Wide Web pages, the project providesinformation about the diversity of organisms on Earth,their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and

characteristics. Each page contains information about a particular

group of organisms (e.g., echinoderms, tyrannosaurs,phlox flowers, cephalopods, club fungi, or thesalamanderfish of Western Australia).

ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in

the form of the evolutionary tree of life.
http://tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/participants.htmlhttp://tolweb.org/tree/learn/concepts/whatisphylogeny.htmlhttp://tolweb.org/Echinodermata/2497http://tolweb.org/Tyrannosauridae/15896http://tolweb.org/Polemoniaceae/20812http://tolweb.org/Cephalopoda/19386http://tolweb.org/Basidiomycota/20520http://tolweb.org/Lepidogalaxias_salamandroides/15164http://tolweb.org/Lepidogalaxias_salamandroides/15164http://tolweb.org/Basidiomycota/20520http://tolweb.org/Cephalopoda/19386http://tolweb.org/Polemoniaceae/20812http://tolweb.org/Tyrannosauridae/15896http://tolweb.org/Echinodermata/2497http://tolweb.org/tree/learn/concepts/whatisphylogeny.htmlhttp://tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/participants.html


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Overview of TOL


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Contd.,

Materials stored in ToL databases, such as taxonnames, text sections, images and other mediaare treated as objects that are attached toindividual branching points in the phylogenetic

hierarchy. By attaching objects to nodes in the tree, these

objects become organized according tophylogenetic hypotheses in a nested, hierarchical

schema. This design easily accommodateschanges in phylogenetic hypotheses ornomenclature.

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