The PhyloAlps Project
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Data types
- Linnaean taxonomy
- Identifier
- Basionym i.e. binomial name (genus + species)
- Synonyms
- Nomenclature synonym
- Replaced synonym
- Herbarium (alcoothèque/silicathèque)
- Photos (photo server ? existing herbarium numeric model ?)
- Location (area/GPS coordinates)
- Collection datetime
- Occurrences
- Photos (photo server ? existing herbarium numeric model ?)
- Location (area/GPS coordinates)
- Observation datetime
- Phenotypic traits
- Noteworthy criteria
- DNA sequences
- Genome skimming
- RAD sequencing
- Exons capture
- Population distribution within an area
- Taxon coverage
Data providers
- SAJF: Station Alpine Joseph Fourier
- CBNA: Conservatoire Botanique National Alpin à Briançon
- LECA: Laboratoire d'ECologie Alpine
- GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility (occurrences, observations, /!\ coverage)
- IFB: Institut Français pour la Bioinformatique
- FRB: Fondation pour la Recherche en Biodiversité
- INSD: International Nucleotide Sequence Database collaboration :
- Tela Botanica: association de botanique de référence pour la botanique numérique
- USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
- MoBot: Missouri Botanical garden
- MNHN: Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle
Data sources
Name | Data type | Availability | Access | Comment |
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SAJF PhyloAlps Herbarium | Nomenclature, location, photos | SAJF data | QR codes | Work in progress |
CBNA Herbarium | Nomenclature, location, photos | via GBIF | ||
GBIF | Occurrences (nomenclature, location, photos) | -> | REST API | Crowdsourcing quality |
LECA Androsace | Phenotypic traits | LECA data | HMI | |
FloraAlpina | Phenotypic traits of Alpine plants | © | Book | Paper version only |
BOLD | DNA barcoding | © -> | REST API | not complete genome, taxonomic markers, 2 genes: matK et rbcL |
NCBI GenBank E-utilities | Taxonomy, DNA data bank | ODbL | REST API | |
EMBL-EBI Ensembl | Taxonomy, DNA data bank | Third Party | REST API, SPARQL endpoint | Clients available for Perl/Python/Java |
DDBJ WABI | Taxonomy, DNA data bank | © | REST API | Some docs in Japanese |
Phylota | DNA data bank | HMI | ||
iPlant TNRS | Nomenclature, synonyms | Available | REST API | Fuzzy name matching |
MNHN TaxRef | Taxonomy | Available | ||
The Plant list | Nomenclature, synonyms | HMI | > 10 data sources, 3-levels trust model | |
PlantMiner | Nomenclature, synonyms | Available | REST API | |
Tela Botanica eFlore | Nomenclature, synonyms | REST API | Beta version | |
FCBN SIFlore | Distribution map | Unavailable | HMI | |
EOL | Nomenclature | Third party | REST API | |
USDA Plants | Taxonomy, location, photos | © -> public domain | REST API | |
Mobot APG | Taxonomy | HTML Web pages |
Data sharing
- Institutions
- OBO Foundry: Open Biomedical Ontology Foundry
- HCLSIG: W3C Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
- TDWG: Biodiversity Information Standards group
- BGCI: Botanic Gardens Conservation International
- NCEI: National Center for Environmental Information
- ISB: International Society for Biocuration
- Species 2000
- BioSharing
- Standards & frameworks
- LSID: Life Science ID
- SPICE: Species 2000 Interoperability Co-ordination Environment
- SDD: Structure of Descriptive Data
- ABCD: Access to Biological Collections Data schema
- DwC: Darwin Core
- ISA: Investigation, Study and Assay framework
- BioDBcore: generic description of the core attributes of biological databases
- TCS: Taxonomic Concept (Transfer) Schema
- Ontologies
- Gene-oriented Markup languages
- Tools
- Biocatalogue: The Life Science Web Services Registry
- TSE: Taxonomic Search Engine
- BioCASE: Biological Collection Access SErvice
- iPhylo: Taxonomic id reconciliation with Google Refine
- MNHN TaxRef Match: Taxonomic id reconciliation (work in progress)
- GlobalNameResolver: Scientific name reconciliation
- GBIF Species API: GBIF Species scientific name matching
Data quality
- Multiple stages data validation process
- syntactic & semantic check (automatic)
- outlier check (semi-automatic)
- Multi-criteria data trust model
- Issue tracking system
- Bridge the gap between multiple taxonomic referentials taxonomiques:
- Version control