iSpecies

[David Orlovich]

Hi rob - your iSpecies page has the feel of a database, without the
limitation of a narrow range of taxa. It's really exciting - well
done.  I wonder if it would be handy to have an expand button after
each collection of information (e.g., after the 5 images to "See all
(26,549)").  I guess I'm thinking like how they do it in Spotlight in
MaxOSX 10.4, but acknowledge that going straight to Google/Yahoo
Images would do the same and you'd loose the multifaceted feel that
you've created here.  Great!  Cheers, David Orlovich.

On 3/11/2005, at 5:23 AM, Roderic Page wrote:

> For fun I've created a site that searches three data sources - NCBI,
> Yahoo images, and Google Scholar for information on a taxonomic name.
> If you type in a name you get information on whether that organism has
> been sequenced (and if so, how many sequences are available), the
> first
> five images Yahoo finds on the web, and up to 10 documents from Google
> Scholar (with DOIs and links to PubMed, where available ).
>
> If you'd like to try it go to http://ispecies.org (you'll get
> forwarded
> to a machine here in Glasgow).
>
> I know there are all sorts of problems with searching on names, but
> I've found it to be fun to see just how much information is out there.
>
> Example links to try are:
>
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Pediculus+humanus
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Rhea+americana
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Anthonomus+grandis
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?
> q=Florinemestrius+pulcherrimus
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Agathis+australis
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Banksia+coccinea
>
> Please be aware that the image search can sometime produce images you
> might not want children or the faint hearted to see -- despite Yahoo
> claiming it filters adult content. You have been warned...
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
> Professor Roderic D. M. Page
> Editor, Systematic Biology
> DEEB, IBLS
> Graham Kerr Building
> University of Glasgow
> Glasgow G12 8QP
> United Kingdom
>
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> reprints: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/pubs.html
>
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> Search for taxon names at http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/
> portal/

Dr David Orlovich,
Senior Lecturer in Botany.

Department of Botany,
University of Otago,
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(Courier: 464 Great King Street)
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