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Such a map would provide raw and summary data and information on biodiversity and its change across the world at multiple scales.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We discuss a series of steps required to create a unified global map of biodiversity. These steps include: building biodiversity repositories; creating scalable species distribution maps; creating flexible, user-programmable pipelines which enable biodiversity assessment; and integrating phylogenetic approaches into biodiversity assessment. We show two case studies that combine phyloinformatic and biodiversity informatic approaches to document large scale biodiversity patterns. The first case study uses data available from the Barcode of Life initiative in order to make species conservation assessment of North American birds taking into account evolutionary uniqueness. The second case study uses full genomes of influenza A available from Genbank to provide an auto-updating documentation of the evolution and geographic spread of these viruses.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: Both the website for tracking evolution and spread of influenza A and the website for applying phyloinformatics analysis to Barcode of Life data are available as outcomes of case studies (http:\/\/biodiversity.colorado.edu).<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0robert.guralnick@colorado.edu<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btn659","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,1,8]],"date-time":"2009-01-08T01:24:23Z","timestamp":1231377863000},"page":"421-428","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":84,"title":["Biodiversity informatics: automated approaches for documenting global biodiversity patterns and processes"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Robert","family":"Guralnick","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0265, USA"},{"name":"1 University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0265, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"Hill","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0265, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,1,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013110100442800_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2309","DOI":"10.1126\/science.289.5488.2309","article-title":"The quiet revolution: biodiversity informatics on the internet","volume":"289","author":"Bisby","year":"2000","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"2023013110100442800_B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6","DOI":"10.1038\/439006a","article-title":"Mashups mix data into global service","volume":"439","author":"Butler","year":"2006","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"2023013110100442800_B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.17161\/bi.v1i0.3","article-title":"Global biodiversity informatics: setting the scene for a \u201cnew world\u201d of ecological forecasting","volume":"1","author":"Canhos","year":"2004","journal-title":"Biodiversity Informatics"},{"key":"2023013110100442800_B4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1439","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1558-5646.2007.00117.x","article-title":"Integrating coalescent and ecological niche modeling in comparative phylogeography","volume":"61","author":"Carstens","year":"2007","journal-title":"Evolution"},{"key":"2023013110100442800_B5","article-title":"Principles and methods of data cleaning","volume-title":"Report for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2004.","author":"Chapman","year":"2005"},{"key":"2023013110100442800_B6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"402","DOI":"10.1890\/1540-9295(2006)4[402:NOIESU]2.0.CO;2","article-title":"New opportunities in ecological sensing using wireless sensor networks","volume":"4","author":"Collins","year":"2006","journal-title":"Front. 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