Beyond Bioinformatics

Title

An overview on biodiversity information in databases

Authors

Piramanayagam Shanmughavel*

Affiliation

DBT Bioinformatics Facility, Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641046

Email

shanvel_99@yahoo.com; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Views & Challenges

Date

received January 05, 2007; revised March 09, 2007; accepted March 20, 2007; published online March 27, 2007

Abstract

The massive development of biodiversity related information systems over the WWW (World Wide Web) has created much excitement in recent years. These arrays of new data sources are counterbalanced by the difficulty in knowing their location and nature. However, biologists and computer scientists have started to pull together in a rising tide of coherence and organization to address this issue. The fledging field of biodiversity informatics is expected to deliver major advances that could turn the WWW into a giant global biodiversity information system. The present paper briefly reviews the databases in preserving the biodiversity data.

Keywords

biodiversity; informatics; database; internet

Citation

Shanmughavel, Bioinformation 1(9): 367-369 (2007)

Edited by

P.Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics Publishing Group

Copyright

Publisher

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License

This is an open-access article, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.