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