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- Title
taxadb : A high‐performance local taxonomic database interface.
- Authors
Norman, Kari E. A.; Chamberlain, Scott; Boettiger, Carl; Price, Samantha
- Abstract
A familiar and growing challenge in ecological and evolutionary research is that of establishing consistent taxonomy when combining data from separate sources. While this problem is already well understood and numerous naming authorities have been created to address the issue, most researchers lack a fast, consistent, and intuitive way to retrieve taxonomic names.We present taxadbR package which creates a local database, managed automatically from within R, to provide fast operations on millions of taxonomic names.taxadb provides access to established naming authorities to resolve synonyms, taxonomic identifiers, and hierarchical classification in a consistent and intuitive data format.taxadb makes operation on millions of taxonomic names fast and manageable.
- Subjects
DATABASES; BIOTIC communities; SYNONYMS; TAXONOMY; HIGH performance computing
- Publication
Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 9, p1153
- ISSN
2041-210X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/2041-210X.13440