This is next on the to do list. The site already makes extensive use of SOAP to talk to two of the source databases, I just need to tidy up the code a bit in preparation for making it a SOAP server. There are also performance issues to address, for which caching might help.
Regards
Rod
Nice.
It would be great if you exposed this as a Web Service. There seem to be several frameworks for doing this with PHP applications.
Bob Morris
Roderic D. M. Page wrote:
The Taxonomic Search Engine I recently developed (http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/portal/ ) now queries the GenBank taxonomy, in addition to ITIS, Index Fungorum, uBio, and IPNI. Although GenBank is not an authoritative source of taxonomic names, they do have many names not in these other databases.
Regards
Rod
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