Improved data retrieval from TreeBASE via taxonomic and linguistic data enrichment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

TreeBASE, the only data repository for phylogenetic studies, is not being used effectively since it does not meet the taxonomic data retrieval requirements of the systematics community. We show, through an examination of the queries performed on TreeBASE, that data retrieval using taxon names is unsatisfactory.

Results

We report on a new wrapper supporting taxon queries on TreeBASE by utilising a Taxonomy and Classification Database (TCl-Db) we created. TCl-Db holds merged and consolidated taxonomic names from multiple data sources and can be used to translate hierarchical, vernacular and synonym queries into specific query terms in TreeBASE. The query expansion supported by TCl-Db shows very significant information retrieval quality improvement. The wrapper can b

SUBMITTER: Anwar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2685121 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature