A Biologist"s Guide to Internet Resources

A Biologist"s Guide to Internet Resources (Lists & Groups)

AlgaeBase

Database and directory of information on algae species worldwide. A global database of information on algae, including terrestrial, marine and freshwater organisms. Provides taxonomic, distributional, and nomenclatural data.

Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD)

Informatics workbench and biological resource repository aiding the barcoding and identification of species.

BioPortal

Repository of biomedical ontologies and biological vocabularies.

Encyclopedia of Life

Global digital encyclopedia providing information on all known species of life.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

International network and data infrastructure providing open access to biodiversity data. International open data infrastructure funded by governments, providing open access to biodiversity and biological resource data.

Index Fungorum

Global fungal index database and directory of mycological names.

ITIS.gov | Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Partners with specialists from around the world to assemble scientific names and their taxonomic relationships and distributes that data openly through publicly available software.

Open Directory Project - Biology

Historical web directory indexing resources across biological sciences.

Species 2000

Indexing project aiming to compile a comprehensive directory of the world"s species.

The National Biological Information Infrastructure

The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) was a web-based program coordinated by the US Geological Survey that provided seamless access to biological, ecological, and environmental databases.

Tree of Life Web Project

Collaborative directory of phylogenetic information and organism diversity.

World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC)

Global organization promoting cooperation among culture collections holding biological resources and microbial strains.