iSpecies

[Martin Grube]

Dear Rod, this is fantastic! Thank you for this great service to
science.. an absolutely needed tool !
Cheers,
Martin Grube (lichenologist)

Roderic Page schrieb:

> For fun I've created a site that searches three data sources - NCBI,
> Yahoo images, and Google Scholar for information on a taxonomic name.
> If you type in a name you get information on whether that organism has
> been sequenced (and if so, how many sequences are available), the first
> five images Yahoo finds on the web, and up to 10 documents from Google
> Scholar (with DOIs and links to PubMed, where available ).
>
> If you'd like to try it go to http://ispecies.org (you'll get forwarded
> to a machine here in Glasgow).
>
> I know there are all sorts of problems with searching on names, but
> I've found it to be fun to see just how much information is out there.
>
> Example links to try are:
>
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Pediculus+humanus
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Rhea+americana
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Anthonomus+grandis
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?
> q=Florinemestrius+pulcherrimus
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Agathis+australis
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Banksia+coccinea
>
> Please be aware that the image search can sometime produce images you
> might not want children or the faint hearted to see -- despite Yahoo
> claiming it filters adult content. You have been warned...
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
> Professor Roderic D. M. Page
> Editor, Systematic Biology
> DEEB, IBLS
> Graham Kerr Building
> University of Glasgow
> Glasgow G12 8QP
> United Kingdom
>
> Phone:    +44 141 330 4778
> Fax:      +44 141 330 2792
> email:    r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
> web:      http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html
> reprints: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/pubs.html
>
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> Biologists Website:  http://systematicbiology.org
> Search for taxon names at http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/portal/


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Dr. Martin Grube
Institute of Plant Sciences
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Holteigasse 6
8010 Graz
Austria

tel 0043 316 380 5655
fax 0043 316 380 9883
email martin.grube at uni-graz.at