Jinshui Qiu, Jianwen Zhang, Tao Jin, Huifu Zhuang
National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming China.
Science and Technology Information Center, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China Science and Technology Information Center, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming China.
Biodivers Data J. 2025 Mar 31;13:e142973. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e142973. eCollection 2025.
Biodiversity plays a vital role in human survival and development. Consequently, the protection of biodiversity has become a global concern. Biological names serve as biological identifiers and the use of correct biological names helps promote biodiversity conservation research. At present, there are numerous taxonomic databases and software tools available worldwide for processing plant names. However, these resources are scattered across various database websites or personal computers. Users must invest a significant amount of time collecting these resources and expend substantial effort to learn, use and maintain them, consequently leading to high user learning and usage costs. Here, we propose a solution to address the above problem. We collected mainstream and freely available taxonomic datasets from around the world, integrated them into an extensive taxonomic dataset and subsequently mapped the data in this summary database to Solr search engine. Then, based on these taxonomic datasets, we designed database, algorithms and system, developed the system and finally established an online plant name service system (PNSS). The PNSS not only integrates the mainstream taxonomic datasets, but also offers free plant name retrieval, matching, search, parsing and application programming interface (API) services to help biologists conduct more effective research on biodiversity conservation.
生物多样性在人类生存和发展中起着至关重要的作用。因此，生物多样性的保护已成为全球关注的问题。生物名称作为生物标识符，正确使用生物名称有助于促进生物多样性保护研究。目前，全球有众多分类学数据库和软件工具可用于处理植物名称。然而，这些资源分散在各种数据库网站或个人电脑上。用户必须花费大量时间收集这些资源，并投入大量精力去学习、使用和维护它们，从而导致用户的学习和使用成本很高。在此，我们提出一个解决方案来解决上述问题。我们收集了来自世界各地的主流且免费的分类学数据集，将它们整合到一个庞大的分类学数据集中，随后将这个汇总数据库中的数据映射到Solr搜索引擎。然后，基于这些分类学数据集，我们设计了数据库、算法和系统，开发了该系统，最终建立了一个在线植物名称服务系统（PNSS）。PNSS不仅整合了主流分类学数据集，还提供免费的植物名称检索、匹配、搜索、解析和应用程序编程接口（API）服务，以帮助生物学家更有效地开展生物多样性保护研究。
