HICLAS: An Effective Tool for Interoperability Among Taxonomic Database Systems

HICLAS：分类数据库系统之间互操作性的有效工具

• 批准号: 9630846
• 负责人: Sakti Pramanik
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9630846&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HICLAS; Effective; Tool; Interoperability; Among

HICLAS is biological classification data management system designed to store and retrieve taxonomic data about the relationships between species and other taxonomic levels. Classifications provide the bases for recording and tracking information of the tree of life; they are modified, tuned, improved and replaced as new information about the identity of species on the planet becomes available. A prototype WWW interface and home page for the database is available at: http:/aims.cps.msu.edu/hiclas. The focus of this project is to develop a software interface between the HICLAS system and other existing taxonomic databases. A set of interactive database interface tools will be built for data transfer, search and display. In order to establish interoperablity among various taxonomic database systems the databases that are currently available are classified into two categories. The first category of databases manages nomenclatural data with taxonomic hierarchy and associated taxon data including taxonomic history. The second category of databases manages dendrograms, especially phylogenetic trees, and related character-taxon data sets for cladistic and phenetic analyses. A generalized tree-comparison method and a user query system will be applied to compare classification trees with dendrograms gathered from different existing systems such as UC Berkeley's SMASCH (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/smasch)and Harvard University's TreeBASE (http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/treebase).

HICLAS 是生物分类数据管理系统，旨在存储和检索有关物种和其他分类级别之间关系的分类数据。 分类为记录和追踪生命之树的信息提供了基础；随着有关地球上物种身份的新信息的出现，它们会被修改、调整、改进和替换。 数据库的原型 WWW 界面和主页位于：http://aims.cps.msu.edu/hiclas。 该项目的重点是开发 HICLAS 系统和其他现有分类数据库之间的软件接口。将建立一套交互式数据库接口工具，用于数据传输、搜索和显示。为了建立各种分类数据库系统之间的互操作性，当前可用的数据库被分为两类。第一类数据库管理具有分类层次结构的命名数据和包括分类历史的相关分类单元数据。第二类数据库管理树状图，特别是系统发育树，以及用于分支和表型分析的相关特征分类数据集。将应用广义树比较方法和用户查询系统来将分类树与从不同现有系统收集的树状图进行比较，例如加州大学伯克利分校的 SMASCH (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/smasch) 和哈佛大学的 TreeBASE (http: //www.herbaria.harvard.edu/treebase）。