[Taxacom] plant genus question

[Tony Rees]

For anyone interested in additional information about the philosophy/
technical aspects of the systems mentioned above, I/we have published on
them in the following articles:

The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated
standardization of plant names
B Boyle, N Hopkins, Z Lu, JAR Garay, D Mozzherin, T Rees, N Matasci, ...
BMC bioinformatics 14 (1), 16
https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2105-14-16

Taxamatch, an algorithm for near (‘fuzzy’) matching of scientific names in
taxonomic databases
T Rees
PloS one 9 (9), e107510
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0107510

IRMNG 2006–2016: 10 years of a global taxonomic database
T Rees, L Vandepitte, W Decock, B Vanhoorne
Biodiversity Informatics 12, 1-44
https://www.jcel-pub.org/jbi/article/view/6522

They have been built to provide useful resources for the taxonomic and
broader biological community so hopefully they do serve that purpose.

Regards - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees

On 23 November 2017 at 06:05, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 November 2017 at 05:31, Dennis During <dcduring at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ​I sure would like that fuzzy-search-over-multiple-databases capability
>> for​ other kingdoms.  Any suggestions?
>>
>
> Hi Dennis,
>
> 2 suggestions:
>
> - the Global Names Resolver http://resolver.globalnames.org/ , a service
> of the Global Names Project, searches across multiple data sources
> including animals, plants, fungi and more, e.g. try searching with "Homo
> sapient", however its fuzzy matching seems a bit stricter than some other
> systems (e.g. no match on "Ligslicum")
>
> - my own "IRMNG" database http://www.irmng.org/ ,
> http://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=search which is similarly all-domain,
> although more complete for genera than for species at this time (e.g. finds
> a match for "Ligslicum" but not "Ligslicum scapiforme" at this time since
> that particular species name is not held).
>
> Both have their uses, and IRMNG does have a lot of species names (1.3
> million valid names so worth a try), just not as many as some other systems.
>
> Regards - Tony
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> https://about.me/TonyRees
>
>
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