The new bioinformatics: Integrating ecological data from the gene to the biosphere

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2006, Pages 519-544

  Jones, Matthew B ^a   Schildhauer, Mark P ^a   Reichman, O J ^a   Bowers, Shawn ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; Data sharing; Ecoinformatics; Metadata; Ontology; Scientific workflows; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSPHERE; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; GENE FLOW; GENOMICS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SAMPLING;

EID: 33845451626     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110031     Document Type: Review

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