A non-exhaustive list of projects of relevance to BioCorder. See also the entries under Standards, Schema, Protocols:
Taxonomy:
uBio - a comprehensive catalogue of known names of all living (and once-living) organisms.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) -a single authoritative classification for plants, animals, fungi, and microbes with an emphasis on North American taxa.
Species2000 -an attempt to list all known species as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity.
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) - a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies.
Nomenclator Zoologicus - a compilation of the bibliographic origins of all zoological genera from 1758 through 1994.
Glasgow Taxonomy Name Server - a database of taxonomic names at the University of Glasgow.
Glasgow Taxonomic Search Engine - a web service approach to federating taxonomic name databases at the University of Glasgow.
Other Data:
TreeBASE - a relational database of phylogenetic information hosted by the University at Buffalo.
NCBI GenBank - the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
NCBI PubMed - a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from life science journals.
Tools, Services & Projects:
Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) - an initiative to create cyberinfrastructure for ecological, environmental, and biodiversity research.
Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRes) - an initiative to facilitate large-scale phylogenetic reconstructions.
MorphBank - an open web repository of images serving the biological research community.
Creative Commons - a nonprofit organization offering a flexible copyright for creative work.
Google Scholar - scholarly literature search.
HubMed - an alternative interface to the PubMed literature database
Web LSID Resolver - web based LSID resolution service allows you to view the data and metadata of an LSID with your web browser.
Online Map Creation (OMC) - an online map creation tool.
RDFMapper - a Semantic Web mapping service.
flickr - a facility to store, sort, search and share photos online.
Connotea- an online reference management service for scientists.
Google Maps (UK) (USA) - a flexible online mapping service.
A9 Mapping Service - a new take on online mapping.
Grokker- a new way of visualising and integrated data from web searches.
A9 - a new web search tool.
Yahoo Term Extraction Service - a term extraction web service that provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content.
Furl - a service that saves a personal copy of any page you find on the Web, and lets you find it again instantly.
del.icio.us - a social bookmarks manager that allows you to easily add web pages to a personal collection of links, to categorize those sites, and share them with others.
