The Department of Informatics is a multidisciplinary unit of biologists and software engineers which develops and supports software for biological collections research. We collaborate with scientists in museums, herbaria and biodiversity centers around the world to build cyberinfrastructure to mobilize and apply data from biological specimens amassed from over 400 years of species discovery and documentation.
From the Biodiversity Institute Blogs
Specify Software Sustains 20% Growth October 10, 2011
Specify is now the database management of choice for over 375 biological collections worldwide. The Project is sustaining a 20% annual growth in the number of supported biological...
Posted in Lab Notes
Lifemapper + VisTrails = Better Science February 4, 2011
We have combined Lifemapper and VisTrails software to create an intuitive and powerful new way to analyze species distributions. Lifemapper is our NSF funded species distribution...
Posted in Lab NotesNews
Informatics at a Glance
(Computing, Networking, Collaboration, Software Engineering, Cyberinfrastructure)
Established: 1995
Strengths:
Biodiversity software engineering, biological collections digitization and workflows, biogeospatial data processing, species distribution modeling web services
Biodiversity software engineering, biological collections digitization and workflows, biogeospatial data processing, species distribution modeling web services
Director:
Jim Beach
Jim Beach
Senior Research Scientist Dave Vieglais