Names are key to the big new biology
Names are key to the big new biology
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DOI：
10.1016/j.tree.2010.09.004
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
影响因子：
16.8
通讯作者：
Remsen, D. P.
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作者：
Patterson, D. J.;Cooper, J.;Remsen, D. P.
那些寻求关于生物学的大而广泛的问题的答案，特别是强调有机体（分类学，进化和生态学）的问题，将很快从新兴的基于名称的基础设施中受益。它将利用生物体名称与生物信息之间几乎普遍存在的联系，为分布在因特网上的信息编制索引并使之相互连接。其结果将是一个虚拟的数据共享，随着更多数据的共享而扩展，使生物学成为一门“大科学”。信息学设备将利用这一“新的大生物学”，以广阔的视角振兴比较生物学，揭示以前无法理解的趋势和不连续性，从而帮助我们揭示不熟悉的生物学真理。在这里，我们回顾了这个免费提供的，参与性和语义全局名称架构的第一个组件。
Those who seek answers to big, broad questions about biology, especially questions emphasizing the organism (taxonomy, evolution and ecology), will soon benefit from an emerging names-based infrastructure. It will draw on the almost universal association of organism names with biological information to index and interconnect information distributed across the Internet. The result will be a virtual data commons, expanding as further data are shared, allowing biology to become more of a 'big science'. Informatics devices will exploit this 'big new biology', revitalizing comparative biology with a broad perspective to reveal previously inaccessible trends and discontinuities, so helping us to reveal unfamiliar biological truths. Here, we review the first components of this freely available, participatory and semantic Global Names Architecture.