Biological Information Browsing Environment

生物信息浏览环境摘要标本鉴定是生物多样性调查的主要任务之一。进行这些调查是为了评估地方发展的影响，以及评估全球环境变化等全球进程的影响。它们还有助于旨在了解物种之间相互依赖关系的研究。对于非专业人员来说，标本鉴定过程是最困难和耗时的，他们被要求协助这项工作。由于字符表示的刚性结构，标准识别键难以使用。交互式密钥是一种改进，但难以构建，并且可能不是适用于所有情况的最佳方法。PI建议通过开发生物信息浏览环境（BIBE）来增加选择。BIBE将允许用户可视化来自动植物和其他自然语言物种描述集合的自然语言描述内容。这种可视化可以用来促进标本鉴定。

DBI 9982849 Heidorn University of Illinois, UC Biological Information Browsing EnvironmentAbstractSpecimen identification is one of the main tasks in biodiversity surveys. These surveys are conducted to evaluate the impact of local development as well as to evaluate the impact of global processes such as global environment change. They also aid in research that aims to understand the interdependencies between species. The specimen identification process is most difficult and time consuming for the non-professionals who are being called upon to aid in this work. Standard identification keys are difficult to use because of the rigid structure of the character representation. Interactive keys are an improvement but are difficult to construct and may not be the best approach for all situations. The PI proposes to increase the options by developing a Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE). BIBE would allow a user to visualize the contents of natural language descriptions from flora, fauna and other natural language species description collections. This visualization could then be used to facilitate specimen identification.