Abstract
AbstractThis talk describes a mapping between the NCBI taxonomy database and Wikipedia. These two databases were chosen because the NCBI taxonomy contains all the taxa for which sequences are publicly available, and for many taxa Wikipedia is the first site returned in a Google search on that taxon's scientific name. The NCBI web pages for nearly 53,000 NCBI taxa now have a link to the corresponding page in Wikipedia.
Highlights
One of the great challenges of phyloinformatics is linking together information on phylogenies, taxa, genomes, specimens, and publications.
One approach to linking disparate data is to use shared identifiers.
For example, if a bibliographic database and a nomenclature database both use the same identifier for a publication (such as a DOI), we can link the two pieces of information together using that identifier.
Summary
One of the great challenges of phyloinformatics is linking together information on phylogenies, taxa, genomes, specimens, and publications. One approach to linking disparate data is to use shared identifiers. For example, if a bibliographic database and a nomenclature database both use the same identifier for a publication (such as a DOI), we can link the two pieces of information together using that identifier. An obstacle to this approach is the lack identifiers, or failure to reuse existing identifiers (Page, 2008).
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