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Indexing for Life (i4Life) is an European e-Infrastructure project, co-funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The project was launched at the University of Reading on 1st November 2010. The i4Life is a continuation and expansion of currently existing 4D4Life project.
i4Life has one principal goal – to provide tools for the comparison and harmonisation of the various species catalogues used by six global biodiversity programmes using the Catalogue of Life as a yardstick . This goal will be archived by the establishing of a virtual research community that will interlink and harmonise the taxonomic catalogues presently used by each of the global partners and to create an enhanced list of the entire set of organisms. Partners to this project are the six major global programmes exploring the full extent of life on earth, a central conceptual scientific axis in human knowledge of global biodiversity. They are: GBIF for distribution modelling, the ENA project at EMBL-EBI and the Barcode of Life Initiatives (CBOL and ECBOL) for molecular diversity, IUCN Red Lists for conservation assessment, the Encyclopedia of Life with its life desks and the Species 2000 Catalogue of Life taxonomic framework. They will work closely with ELIXIR and the LifeWatch, the two ESFRI Infrastructures being established to cover biodiversity, and build on the work of the 4D4Life Project that presently supports the internal ‘service ecosystem’ of the Species 2000 Catalogue of Life database networks.
Whether you are looking for DNA sequences, distribution patterns or conservation status, the shared catalogues will help you to find the same plant, animal, fungus or micro-organism under the same name in each place.
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