Open AccessPhyloinformatics in the age of Wikipedia
Author(s) -
Roderic Page
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nature precedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1756-0357
DOI - 10.1038/npre.2010.4583.1
Subject(s) - taxon , world wide web , taxonomy (biology) , information retrieval , computer science , zoology , biology , ecology
This 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.
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