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Barcoding of Life
(BOLD)
www.barcodinglife.org |
The Barcode of Life Database
is designed to support the generation and application of DNA
Barcode data. The platform consists of three main modules, a
data portal, a database of barcode clusters, and data collection
workbench. The Public Data Portal provides access to all public
barcode data which consists of data generated using the
Workbench module as well as data mined from other sources. The
Barcode Index Number (BIN) system assigns a unique identifier to
each sequence cluster of COI, providing an interim taxonomic
system for species in the animal kingdom. The workbench module
integrates secure databases with analytical tools to provide a
private collaborative environment for researchers to collect,
analyze, and publish barcode data and ancillary DNA sequences.
This platform also provides an annotation framework that
supports tagging and commenting on records and their components
(i.e. taxonomy, images, and sequences), allowing for
community-based validation of barcode data.
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Catalogue of Life
(COL)
www.catalogueoflife.org |
The Catalogue of Life is a
quality-assured checklist of more than 1.3 million species of
plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms, about 70%
of all those known to science. An uncomplicated structure, and
both minimal and standardised dataset provide a sound baseline
of species information for all biologists. The Catalogue of Life
is unique in its breadth of coverage of organisms, the degree of
validation in the knowledge set, and its wide global take-up. |
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DRYAD
www.datadryad.org |
Dryad is a non-profit
organization and an international repository of data underlying
scientific and medical publications. The scientific,
educational, and charitable mission of Dryad is to promote the
availability of data underlying findings in the scientific
literature for research and educational reuse. The vision of
Dryad is a scholarly communication system in which learned
societies, publishers, institutions of research and education,
funding bodies and other stakeholders collaboratively sustain
and promote the preservation and reuse of data underlying the
scholarly literature. |
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Encyclopaedia of
Life (EOL)
www.eol.org |
EOL is a free
online resource bringing together information about all life on
Earth in text, images, video, sounds, maps, classifications and
more. |
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Fauna Europaea
www.faunaeur.org |
The Fauna Europaea
project has been funded by the European Commission for a period
of four years (1 March 2000 - 1 March 2004) within the Fifth
Framework Programme (5FP). Fauna Europaea has assembled a
database of the scientific names and distribution of all living
multicellular European land and fresh-water animals. |
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GenBank
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank |
GenBank is the NIH
genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all
publicly available DNA sequences. The GenBank database is
designed to provide and encourage access within the scientific
community to the most up to date and comprehensive DNA sequence
information. |
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Global
Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
www.gbif.org |
The Global
Biodiversity Information Facility was established by governments
in 2001 to encourage free and open access to biodiversity data,
via the Internet. Through a global network of countries and
organizations, GBIF promotes and facilitates the mobilization,
access, discovery and use of information about the occurrence of
organisms over time and across the planet. |
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Integrated
Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
www.itis.gov |
Integrated
Taxonomic Information System contains authoritative taxonomic
information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North
America and the world. |
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Morphbank
www.morphbank.net |
Biological Imaging
is a continuously growing database of images that scientists use
for international collaboration, research and education. Images
deposited in Morphbank document a wide variety of research
including: specimen-based research in comparative anatomy,
morphological phylogenetics, taxonomy and related fields focused
on increasing our knowledge about biodiversity. The project
receives its main funding from the Biological Databases and
Informatics program of the National Science Foundation. |
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Tardigrade
Barcoding Project
www.tardigradebarcoding.org |
The Tardigrade
Barcoding Database is the prime access point for DNA signature
sequences together with information on conventional
morphological taxonomic characters of tardigrades. |
