Biodiversity informatics: Automated approaches for documenting global biodiversity patterns and processes

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 421-428

  Guralnick, Robert ^a,b   Hill, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIRD; DNA BARCODING; GENOME ANALYSIS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIODIVERSITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOCUMENTATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INFORMATICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES;

EID: 60349122959     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn659     Document Type: Review

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