Plant databases linked for botanists and gardeners

Proposals by Czechoslovak Botanists

Subtle Gardeners: Inland Predators Enrich Local Topsoils and Enhance Plant Growth

Inland vertebrate predators could enrich of nutrients the local top soils in the area surrounding their nests and dens by depositing faeces, urine, and prey remains and, thus, alter the dynamics of plant populations. Surprisingly, and in contrast with convincing evidence from coastal habitats, whether and how this phenomenon occurs in inland habitats is largely uncertain even though these habit...

MetaCyc and AraCyc. Metabolic pathway databases for plant research.

MetaCyc (http://metacyc.org) contains experimentally determined biochemical pathways to be used as a reference database for metabolism. In conjunction with the Pathway Tools software, MetaCyc can be used to computationally predict the metabolic pathway complement of an annotated genome. To increase the breadth of pathways and enzymes, more than 60 plant-specific pathways have been added or upda...

A Framework for Transforming Archaeological Databases to Linked Ontological Datasets

Traditionally, archaeological experts are used to recording data in relational databases. Although these data storage mechanism are robust, they are inaccessible to the most popular and powerful web-based search engines. To increase the uptake and usage of archaeological data, these resources need to be openly available and accessible both to humans and machines. In this paper we propose a fram...

Automated Mapping Generation for Converting Databases into Linked Data

Most of the data on the Web is stored in relational databases. In order to make the Semantic Web grow we need to provide easy-to-use tools to convert those databases into linked data, so that even people with little knowledge of the semantic web can use them. Some programs able to convert relational databases into RDF files have been developed, but the user still has to link manually the databa...