List of interactive key programs

[Mike Dallwitz]

                                                                  21 June 1995

> From: Joost Romeu <Joost at JOOST.UCSF.EDU>
> To: Taxacom
>
> Might you please republish the list of interactive key programs you know of,
> both for Windows and the Macintosh.

The list is appended.

Mike Dallwitz                                  Email md at ento.csiro.au
CSIRO Division of Entomology                   Fax +61 6 246 4000
GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia     Phone +61 6 246 4075



       Programs for Interactive Identification and Information Retrieval

                                 21 June 1995

                          Compiled by M. J. Dallwitz

   CSIRO Division of Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
       Phone +61 6 246 4075  Fax +61 6 246 4000  Email md at ento.csiro.au

ASKATAXA
This program used to access synoptic keys produced with the program package
PC-TAXON (DOS version 2.6; Windows version planned). For information on the
program package or on currently available demonstration keys and trial version
of ASKATAXA, please contact:
Fred Rhoades, Biology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham,
WA 98226, USA. Phone: +1 206 733 9149, Fax: +1 206 650 3148, Email:
fredr at henson.cc.wwu.edu

CABIKEY
Ian White, CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8DE, UK. Phone: +44 491
83 2111, Fax: +44 491 83 3508

FLORA
Eirene Williams, Seale-Hayne Dept of Land Use, University of Plymouth, Newton
Abbot, Devon TQ12 6NQ, UK. Fax: +44 626 32 5605

IdentifyIt, LINNAEUS II
For Mac and MS-Windows. ETI, University of Amsterdam, Mauritskade 61, NL 1092
AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Fax: +31 20 525 7238, Email:
info at eti.bio.eva.nl

INTKEY
Shareware, for MS-DOS/Windows. Available (with several data sets) by gopher or
anonymous ftp from the following Internet hosts.
    muse.bio.cornell.edu  (directory: /pub/delta)
    spider.ento.csiro.au  (directory: /delta)
Mike Dallwitz, CSIRO Division of Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601,
Australia. Fax: +61 6 246 4000, Email: md at ento.csiro.au

MEKA
Christopher Meacham, MEACHAM at VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU, Museum Informatics Project,
501 Banway Building, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

ONLINE
Richard J. Pankhurst, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK. Fax: +44 31
552 0382, Email: rjp at castle.ed.ac.uk

PLATO
Christine Leon, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, England

POLLY
For Mac, MS-DOS, and MS-Windows. Trevor Whiffin, Department of Botany, La
Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic 3083, Australia

PolyKey
For Mac and MS-DOS/Windows. J. E. Adaskaveg, Department of Plant Pathology,
University of California, Davis, CA 95616.

TAXASOFT
Interactive identification directly from DELTA format and Binary format.
ddproc.exe for MS-DOS available from the DELTA gopher/ftp sites (see under
INTKEY).
Eric Gouda, Jungfrau 107, NL-3524 WJ Utrecht, The Netherlands. Email:
gouda at cc.ruu.nl

TAXY
Executables for Apple Macintosh, Sun SPARC, SGI, and IBM PCs are available at
d2.com in directory pub/taxy. Source code is available upon request.
Nathan Wilson. Phone: +1 310 314 2939, Email: nathan at d2.com

XID
Richard Old, XID Services, Inc., Post Office Box 272, Pullman, WA 99163, USA.
Phone/Fax: (509) 332-2989. Price: US$330.00 (XID Authoring System 2.1).

XPER
Jacques Lebbe, Service de Me'decine Nucle'aire, Ho^pital Broussais, 93 rue
Didot, 75014 Paris, France