Phylogenetic Ethoinformatics: Computers and Phylogenies in Animal Behavior

系统发育人类信息学：计算机和动物行为的系统发育

• 批准号: 0236049
• 负责人: Emilia Martins
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-02-15 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0236049&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Phylogenetic; Ethoinformatics; Computers; Phylogenies; Animal

Creating a visual display archive Emilia P. MartinsAnimal behavior is the one of the most complex phenotypes and that complexity is reflected in the myriad of ways in which it has been measured and recorded by scientific researchers. Even simple storage, access and retrieval of behavioral information presents a difficult problem because of the variety of forms in which behavioral information is preserved and disseminated. Coherent, effective combination of the data to address important questions in animal behavior or for future communication with databases in other fields (e.g., genomics) requires even more effort. Although recent years have seen the creation of several public databases of biological information, there are still relatively few in animal behavior and even fewer which have even begun to address the considerable difficulties of fast, effective interaction among the huge variety of possible behavioral data types. This proposal is to transfer a large existing collection of lizard display footage from decaying 16mm film to electronic form, preserving it for posterity and making it accessible to other researchers. The lizard archive will be organized through a database and metadata tag structure that is sufficiently general to allow for future addition of visual display data from a wide diversity of other species. A series of web pages will be created to illustrate the benefits of such an archive to the biological community.

创建视觉展示档案 Emilia P. Martins 动物行为是最复杂的表型之一，这种复杂性反映在科学研究人员测量和记录的无数方式中。由于行为信息保存和传播的形式多种多样，即使是简单的行为信息存储、访问和检索也会遇到困难。连贯、有效地组合数据来解决动物行为中的重要问题或未来与其他领域（例如基因组学）的数据库进行通信需要付出更多的努力。尽管近年来已经创建了多个生物信息公共数据库，但动物行为方面的数据库仍然相对较少，甚至开始解决各种可能的行为数据类型之间快速、有效交互的相当大的困难。该提案旨在将大量现有的蜥蜴展示镜头从腐烂的 16 毫米胶片转移到电子形式，为子孙后代保存并可供其他研究人员使用。蜥蜴档案将通过数据库和元数据标签结构进行组织，该结构足够通用，以便将来添加来自各种其他物种的视觉显示数据。将创建一系列网页来说明此类档案对生物界的好处。