TBMap: a taxonomic perspective on the phylogenetic database TreeBASE

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Table 1 Mappings between TreeBASE and taxonomic databases

Mappings between TreeBASE and taxonomic databases
Source	Exact	Substring	Approximate	Accession	Manual	Synonym	Total
IPNI	22271	3084	28		6		25389
ITIS	11314	511			6		11831
NCBI	24273	11580	2914	1850	35	933	41585
uBio	28038	257	21		4		28320
other	3				5		8
Totals	85899	15432	2963	1850	56	933	107133

For each database the table lists the category of mapping. The category "synonym" refer to names that NCBI labels as "anamorph", "equivalent", "in-part", "includes", and "synonym." The source "other" comprises names that were not found in any of the four taxonomic databases.

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