[Taxacom] NCBI to Wikipedia taxon mapping

[Kevin Richards]

Excellent, good to see Rod!
I'm always impressed with the valuable functionality you create with minimal effort.

Kevin

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Roderic Page
Sent: Friday, 18 June 2010 3:25 a.m.
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Subject: [Taxacom] NCBI to Wikipedia taxon mapping

Some 52,956 taxa that have sequences in GenBank are linked to
Wikipedia. These links appear in the NCBI taxonomy pages under the
heading "External Information Resources (NCBI LinkOut)". For example,
the NCBI page for "Mammuthus primigenius"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=37349

shows a link to Wikipedia page for "Woolly Mammoth"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=17369680

My motivation in creating this link was to provide an easy way for
someone visiting a NCBI taxonomy page to get a quick sense of what we
know about that taxon (even if it's simply to answer "what on Earth is
this?").

For some details on how this mapping was created please see my blog
post: http://tinyurl.com/35cljpv. Thanks to Scott Federhen and Kathy
Kwan at NCBI for all their assistance in getting this into NCBI
Linkout. There are inevitably going to be errors and ommissions in
this mapping. These can be updated at http://iphylo.org/linkout.

Regards

Rod

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