Internet Directory for Botany - Software

• Alice Software, UK. Alice Biodiversity Data Management System.
• AX-Orion, USA. An easy to use, yet powerful WWW PC database server. It has full query / insert / update / delete functionality and supports major brand PC database systems. University of Michigan Herbarium Fungus Collection (MICH) gives an example of the use of this program.
• BG-MAP, Botanical Garden Mapping System, USA. Information on computerized mapping of plant collections typically housed at facilities such as botanical gardens, arboreta, zoos, and large private estates.
• BG-BASE Botanical Garden Database, USA. BG-BASE is a botanical collections management database in use in botanical gardens and arboreta worldwide.
• Biology Education Software FAQ by Eli Meir and the Biology Education Software Taskforce of the University of Washington, USA.
• BioSystematica, University of Plymouth, UK. BioSystematica specializes in the creation of computer systems for the analysis of electrophoretic gel patterns, and supplies complete systems or software only. Demonstration versions of some products may be downloaded.
• Botanical Latin Translation Program. Free-ware program by Peter Bostock, Queensland Herbarium, Australia (available from the Missouri Botanical Garden FTP server, St. Louis, USA).
• CODA: software for nature conservation planning. CODA (Conservation Options and Decisions Analysis) is a software package for IBM and compatible PCs that helps you to design networks of nature reserves or protected areas, written by Michael Bedward, New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Environmental Survey and Research Branch, Australia.
• COMPARE, from the University of Oregon, USA. Computer programs for the phylogenetic analysis of comparative data. COMPARE consists of several programs which analyze comparative or interspecific data while taking phylogenetic information into account.
• Component, from Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow, UK. COMPONENT is a computer program for analysing evolutionary trees and is intended for use in studies of phylogeny, tree shape distribution, gene trees/species trees, host-parasite cospeciation, and biogeography.
• Computer programs for pollen analysis from Cambridge Plant Evolution and Palaeoecology, UK.
• DELTA Australia /// DELTA USA. Descriptive Language for Taxonomy. World Wide Web service for the the the DELTA format and suite of programs devised by Mike Dallwitz of the CSIRO Division of Entomology in Canberra, Australia. Also shells (DIANA, DELTA MENU SYSTEM, TAXASOFT) to run the DELTA programs, and datasets for INTKEY.
• Diseases of Ornamentals and Turfgrasses, USA. Plant Pathology 325 (CD-Rom).
• EPI-REFS: A Bibliography of Epiphyte Literature, compiled and published by Shawn Landry, Tampa, Florida. EPI-REFS is a bibliography of scientific and horticultural literature pertaining to vascular and non-vascular epiphytes.
• Fieldwork Software Checklist by Marco Bleeker, the Netherlands.
• FLORIN Information System Home Page, Russia. FLORIN is designed to deal with a wide range of data about plants: taxonomy and nomenclature, geographic distribution, herbarium and living collections, bibliographic data, etc. There is a personal MS-DOS version and a multiuser version for Unix. FLORIN supprots data entry and modification, query-by-example templates, configurable reports, data browsing, loading and importing data, GIS interface for geographic data, automated generation of labels for collections, collection management, data protection and authorization, Internet access, etc. - FLORIN Databases On-line.
• Herbage. Herbage for Windows is an application that is specifically designed for keeping track and manipulating massive amounts of botanical information. The user can add, modify, sort, search and replace, and export a subset of data to the printer as a fully-formatted illustrated report. It comes with a database of ethnobotanical information. Of the more than 2600 plant species included, each entry includes one or more of the following: common names, medicinal action, ailments the plant is used to treat, indigenous use, mail-order source, range, habitat, alkaloid and nutrient content, and public-domain illustrations.
• HICLAS, Hierarchical Classification System. HICLAS is a taxonomic database system developed at Michigan State Univesity(MSU), USA, with funding from National Science Foundation(NSF). This system consists of an intuitive mouse- based graphical user interface connected to a Sybase database server at MSU. The interface allows a user to display and browse hierarchical taxonomic information and have the capability to display lineage information as well as phylogeny of a particular taxonomic group.
• INQUA Data-Handling File Boutique, Wisconsin, USA.
• International Bryological Info System, Duisburg University, Germany, established by Dr. Jan-Peter Frahm. IBIS includes a selection of files and software library of the International Association of Bryologists. Index to available files.
• IUBio, Biology Software and Database Archive, Indiana University, USA.
• John Cheeseman's home page at Dept of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA, with a program for teaching photosynthesis. You can download a demo program - more functional program is for sale.
• MEKA, Multiple Entry Key Algorithm, MEKA is a program enable rapid identification of biological specimens. Earlier versions of the program used a command-line interface. The version offered here is the first version developed to run under Windows. MEKA is controlled by mouse clicks; no text is entered. This approach allows very rapid access to program functions. MEKA was written by Christopher A. Meacham, Museum Informatics Project, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
• MUSE Project - The MUSE Project is a National Science Foundation supported effort to provide software for the curation of natural history collections. The project is housed at Cornell University, USA, and is directed by Julian Humphries.
• NetMul, a WWW online multivariate analysis system set up by Jean Thiolouse, Laboratory of Biometry, University of Lyon, France.
• The Ordination Gopher, maintained by Michael Palmer, Botany Department, Oklahoma State University, USA. Ordination methods for ecologists.
• Parsimony Analysis Software. Cladistics software from the International Willi Hennig Society, USA.
• PHYLIP is a free package of programs for inferring phylogenies. It is distributed as source code, documentation files, and a number of different types of executables. This Web page, being constructed by Joe Felsenstein at Department of Genetics, the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, contains information on PHYLIP and ways to transfer the executables, source code and documentation to your computer. - Phylogeny Programs. Lists and descriptions of available software.
• Phylogenetic Analysis Computer Programs from the Tree of Life site, Arizona, USA.
• Phylogenetics software - Nascent software for the Mac by James Lyons-Weiler at University of Nevada, USA. RASA 1.1.1 and RASA Plot 1.1.1 - software for the Mac that will perform "Relative Apparent Synapomorphy Analysis", a test for the presence of phylogenetic signal in any type of discrete character data matrix (morphological or molecular), is now available at the following URL as a binhexed self-extracting archive.
• Poisonous Plants in Britain and Ireland on CD-ROM, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK.
• RAMAS Library of Ecological Software, Applied Biomathematics, Setauket, New York, USA. RAMAS is a software library for building ecological models.
• Skis v5.6 for Biodiversity Data Capture, Checklisting and Communications via ftp from Vaasa, Finland.
• Software Archives for Biology, Stanford, USA.
• Softsearch, searching for software and data. There are over 80 sites around the world that archive software and data for biologists which you can browse through. Page maintained by Dan Jacobsen.
• TreeMap, Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow, UK. TreeMap is an experimental program for comparing host and parasite trees. It is available for both Windows and Apple Macs.
• TreeView, Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow, UK. TreeView is a free, simple program for displaying phylogenies on Apple Macintosh and Windows Pcs.
• TTBC, Taxonomic Tools by Computer, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain (also accessible via TTBC Gopher). Some of the services and information in the page are DIRTAX (Directory of Spanish Taxonomists; searchable by WAIS gateway) and DELTA in Spanish, and some related tools, programs for image analysis and educational purposes.
• WebCutter, USA. Webcutter is a free on-line tool for restriction mapping nucleotide sequences. - Mirror of WebCutter in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• XID Expert System - Identification, Prescription, and Description Database Software, USA. Relational database for identification.

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