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A methodology for composing well-defined character descriptions. (2003)
Report
Paterson, T., Cannon, A., Raguenaud, C., Russell, G., Armstrong, K. E., MacDonald, S. M., Pullan, M. R., Watson, M. F., & Kennedy, J. (2003). A methodology for composing well-defined character descriptions

Taxonomy has been described as “the science of documenting biodiversity”, which involves collecting, naming, describing, identifying and classifying specimens of organisms (Keogh, 1995). Descriptions are the fundamental information units used in the... Read More about A methodology for composing well-defined character descriptions..

Supporting taxonomic names in cell and molecular biology databases (2003)
Journal Article
Kennedy, J. (2003). Supporting taxonomic names in cell and molecular biology databases. OMICS, 7(1), 13-16. https://doi.org/10.1089/153623103322006508

Groups of organisms require labels or names to refer to them; however, the idea of a single static name index, although tempting for its simplicity, is both impractical and unadvisable as a basis for referring to organisms for which data has been col... Read More about Supporting taxonomic names in cell and molecular biology databases.