Edition 3- May 1997 |
BIOINFORMATICS CORNER |
A biodiversity of web sites
A quick run of the key word ‘biodiversity’ through several of the most popular Internet search engines produces a bewildering array of home pages. If you can’t see the wood for the trees, and would like a general introduction, the BCCM™ can recommend the following web sites:
Convention on Biological Diversity, Clearing House, at http://www.wcmc.org.uk/~chm/
The Tree of Life (phylogeny and biodiversity), at http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
Taxonomy Browser, (U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information), at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Biodiversity Information Network - BIN21 (Convention on Biological Diversity and Earth Summit at Rio), at http://www.bdt.org.br/bin21/bin21.html
Diversitas (from the "Man and the Biosphere" programme - MAB), at http://www.unesco.org/mab/collab/diver1.htm
All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (Ministry of Natural Resources of Costa Rica, at http://www.inbio.ac.cr/ATBI/
Species 2000 (aimed at cataloguing all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth), at http://www.sp2000.org/
Systematics Agenda 2000 (SA2000) - charting the biosphere, at gopher://muse.bio.cornell.edu/11/standards/sa2000
The WWW Virtual Library of Ecology, Biodiversity and the Environment, at http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/welcome/
Enjoy surfing, and don’t forget the BCCM site at
http://www.belspo.be/bccm
You are most welcome!
CONTACT
François Guissart
Tel: +32 2 238 36 41
Fax: +32 2 230 59 12
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