Taxamatch, an Algorithm for Near (‘Fuzzy’) Matching of Scientific Names in Taxonomic Databases

Misspellings of organism scientific names create barriers to optimal storage and organization of biological data, reconciliation of data stored under different spelling variants of the same name, and appropriate responses from user queries to taxonomic data systems. This study presents an analysis o...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 9; no. 9; p. e107510
Main Author:	Rees, Tony
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 23.09.2014 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Algorithms Archives & records Biodiversity Biology and Life Sciences Classification Classification - methods Computer and Information Sciences Data systems Databases, Factual Dictionaries Dynamic programming Errors First principles Genera Heuristic Matching N-Gram language models Names Phonetics Physical Sciences Ports Product development Recall Species Spelling Spelling errors Storage Taxonomy Variants
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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