TBMap: a taxonomic perspective on the phylogenetic database TreeBASE.

ABSTRACT:

Background

TreeBASE is currently the only available large-scale database of published organismal phylogenies. Its utility is hampered by a lack of taxonomic consistency, both within the database, and with names of organisms in external genomic, specimen, and taxonomic databases. The extent to which the phylogenetic knowledge in TreeBASE becomes integrated with these other sources is limited by this lack of consistency.

Description

Taxonomic names in TreeBASE were mapped onto names in the external taxonomic databases IPNI, ITIS, NCBI, and uBio, and graph G of these mappings was constructed. Additional edges representing taxonomic synonymies were added to G, then all components of G were extracted. These components correspond to "name clusters", and group together names in Tre

SUBMITTER: Page RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1885449 | biostudies-literature | 2007 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature