Phylogenetic Ethoinformatics: Computers and Phylogenies in Animal Behavior

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。即使是简单的存储，访问和检索的行为信息提出了一个困难的问题，因为各种形式的行为信息被保存和传播。数据的连贯、有效组合，以解决动物行为中的重要问题，或用于未来与其他领域的数据库（例如，基因组学）需要更多的努力。尽管近年来已经建立了几个生物信息的公共数据库，但动物行为方面的数据库仍然相对较少，甚至更少，甚至已经开始解决在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。这项提议是将现有的大量蜥蜴展示镜头从腐烂的16毫米胶片转换成电子形式，为后代保存下来，并使其他研究人员可以使用。蜥蜴档案将通过一个数据库和元数据标签结构进行组织，该结构足够通用，以便将来添加来自其他物种的各种视觉显示数据。将建立一系列网页，说明这种档案对生物界的好处。

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.