BioBot: the Biological Search Engine for the Internet
The National Biological
Information Infrastructure (NBII) has offered the BioBot tool to www.IABIN.net facilitates biodiversity informatics users that
want to learn more about species and broader environmental issues.
BioBot has two distinct parts. The first is the main search interface,
which offers a wide variety of options for finding information. For instance,
users can indicate which of the Internet's leading biological information
sources they want to employ (such as Biodiversity Web Sites, Publications
and Citations, Biodiversity Metadata). Search types include a simple
search, Boolean search, and phrase searches.
IABIN users can use BioBot to:
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Search NBII and IABIN information, as it is included, as well as
otherbiological information available on the Internet through sources.
These vendors and others are currently indexing and harvesting information
from a number of biological sites. BioBot builds upon this information,
allowing users to easily access the biological information they want.
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Combine BioBot with other biological information systems (in the
near future), such as the Integrated Taxonomic Information System
(ITIS), to learn species and taxonomic information (ITIS is the first
comprehensive standardized reference for the scientific names of
the flora and fauna of North America and surrounding oceans).
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Include additional IABIN relevant content in native language (i.e.
Spanish).
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If you have content that needs to be included, please e-mail
us.
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