Biodiversity

Parses species scientific name and breaks it into elements.

Installation

To install gem you need RubyGems >= 1.2.0

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (you only have to do this once)
$ sudo gem install dimus-biodiversity

Example usage

You can parse file with species names from command line. File should contain one scientific name per line

nnparser file_with_names

You can use it as a library

require 'biodiversity'

parser = ScientificNameParser.new

# to parse a scientific name 
parser.parse("Plantago major")

# to clean name up
parser.parse("             Plantago       major    ").value

# to get only cleaned up latin part of the name
parser.parse("Pseudocercospora dendrobii (H.C. Burnett) U. Braun & Crous 2003").canonical

# to get detailed information about elements of the name
parser.parse("Pseudocercospora dendrobii (H.C. Burnett 1883) U. Braun & Crous 2003").details

# to resolve lsid and get back RDF file
LsidResolver.resolve("urn:lsid:ubio.org:classificationbank:2232671")