Hi Steve --<div><br></div><div>You should be able to use the uBio web services in a simple script to look these up. The problem will probably be that you'll get too many matches. The web services are described here:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=xml_services">http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=xml_services</a></div><div><br></div><div>You probably would use the namebank_search function. Here's an example call via URL:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ubio.org/webservices/service.php?function=namebank_search&searchName=Quercus+rubra&sci=1&vern=1&keyCode=YOUR_CODE_HERE">http://www.ubio.org/webservices/service.php?function=namebank_search&searchName=Quercus+rubra&sci=1&vern=1&keyCode=YOUR_CODE_HERE</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>You'll need your own key code for accessing the service, which you can get here:</div><div><a href="http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=form">http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=form</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Note that the strings returned are base64 encoded, so you'll need to decode them before use. </div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Steve Baskauf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu">steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I have generated a csv spreadsheet of about 39 000 plant names for the<br>
U.S. which has the ITIS TSNIDs for the names in a column. I would like<br>
to have the uBio Namebank IDs in another column of the table. I have<br>
been looking them up on the uBio website by typing in the names as I<br>
need to know the IDs, but after doing about 300 of them, I'm getting<br>
tired of it. Does anybody have a clever idea of a way to get the other<br>
38 000 Namebank IDs without looking them up. I'm sure that it would be<br>
possible to find this out because uBio gets names from ITIS. However, I<br>
haven't seen any clues about how to do it in an automated fashion. I'm<br>
guessing that there might be some way to use the uBio web services, but<br>
if so, it isn't obvious and I probably don't have the skills to carry it<br>
out anyway.<br>
<br>
Any ideas?<br>
Steve<br>
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