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Introduction

Project uBio - Introduction

Information about organisms is often linked to a name.
This can create problems in information retrieval because:
• One taxon can have many names.
• The same name can refer to many taxa.
uBio is working on tools for providers of biological information that address these problems.
The uBio Taxonomic Name Server acts as a name thesaurus.
Names have many different classes of relationships that can be used to organize and retrieve information that is annotated with names. These classes are divided into two inter-connected services.
NameBank? is a repository of millions of recorded biological names and facts that link those names together. [more]
ClassificationBank? stores multiple classifications and taxonomic concepts that are the result of expert opinions. It extends the functionality of NameBank?. [more]
All data within these components are linked to mechanisms that provide credit and attribution to experts who provide name and linkage information within the TNS. [more]
Lastly, NameBank? promotes the emergence of a layered biological informatics infrastructure that allows different expert systems to share common information. This conserves scarce resources and enhances the means to support continued expert work. [more]

Project uBio - Introduction

Les informations au sujet des orgabnismes sont souvent liées à un nom linked to a name.
Ceci peut peut créer des problèmes dans le suivi et la récupération d'information parce que : information retrieval :
• un taxon peut avoir plusieurs noms many names.
• le même nom peut référer à plusieurs taxons many taxa.
Les noms ont plusieurs types de relations different classes of relationships qui peuvent être utilisées pour organiser et retrouver les informations qui sont annotées de noms. Ces types de relations sont divisées en These classes are divided into two inter-connected services.
NameBank? is a repository of millions of recorded biological names and facts that link those names together. [more]
ClassificationBank? stores multiple classifications and taxonomic concepts that are the result of expert opinions. It extends the functionality of NameBank?. [more]
All data within these components are linked to mechanisms that provide credit and attribution to experts who provide name and linkage information within the TNS. [more]
Lastly, NameBank? promotes the emergence of a layered biological informatics infrastructure that allows different expert systems to share common information. This conserves scarce resources and enhances the means to support continued expert work. [more]