Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS)

The iPlant Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) can help correcting and homogenizing list of plant scientific names. It allows input as text lists or files. It can check the names against the databases of TROPICOS, GCC, USDA and NCBI. It’s available through a web interface and also through web services.

The Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) can resolve many forms of taxonomic semantic heterogeneity, correct spelling errors and eliminate spurious names. As a result, the TNRS can aid the integration of disparate biological datasets. Although the TNRS was developed to aid in standardizing plant names, its underlying algorithms and design can be extended to all organisms and nomenclatural codes. The TNRS is accessible via a web interface at http://tnrs.iplantcollaborative.org/ and as a RESTful web service and application programming interface. Source code is available at https://github.com/iPlantCollaborativeOpenSource/TNRS/.

Tool: Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) — Thumbnail image for tool

Citations

To cite the Taxonomic Name Resolution Service please refer to the following publication: Boyle, B. et.al. The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names. BMC Bioinformatics. 2013, 14:16. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-14-16

If the results derived from the TNRS are used in a publication, please cite: The Taxonomic Name Resolution Service. iPlant Collaborative. Version < VERSION NUMBER > accessed on < DATE ACCESSED >. Available at http://tnrs.iplantcollaborative.org.

Substantial effort has gone into producing reliable taxonomic lists. We request that if you use the TNRS that you also acknowledge the original authors and editors of the lists that have been used as sources. See http://tnrs.iplantcollaborative.org/sources.html.