The trouble with triplets in biodiversity informatics: A data-driven case against current identifier practices

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Guralnick, Robert ^a   Conlin, Tom ^a   Deck, John ^b   Stucky, Brian J ^a   Cellinese, Nico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARCODE OF LIFE DATA SYSTEM; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARWIN CORE TRIPLET; ERROR; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENBANK; GENE SEQUENCE; GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDENTIFIER; INTERNET; VERTNET; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET;

EID: 84915756367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114069     Document Type: Article

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