Biology

• Atlas of Living Australia The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) project is building a biodiversity information platform to provide scientists and others with the information they need now and in decades to come. The ALA is a unique five-year partnership between the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency; the Australian Government and Australian museums, herbaria and other biological collections. It is a work in progress. Source: ALA website

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• Botanical Databases - (Australia's flora) Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and other important indexes hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

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• Catalogue of Life The most complete authoritative list of the world's species - maintained by hundreds of global taxonomists

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• Index Nominum Genericorum A compilation of generic names published for organisms covered by the ICN: International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants.
• Index to Organism Names (ION) ION contains the organism names related data gathered from the scientific literature for Thomson Reuters' Zoological Record® database. Viruses, bacteria and plant names are added from other Thomson Reuters databases such as BIOSIS Previews®.
• International Plant Names Index The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is (the official) database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI is a dynamic resource, depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical community.
• KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
• Plantwise Knowledge Bank A global resource to help combat plant health problems. Select your location from the menu above to view country- or region-specific plant health information. Produced by CABI Use the diagnostic tool to find out what problem might be affecting your crop. Use the site search to find information on management of pests and diseases. Use the map to view the distribution of up to three pest or crop species at a time.
• Protocol Online "Your lab's reference book"
• WikiSpecies-The free species directory that anyone can edit Also gathers data from other authoratative sources such as Index Fungorum, PhytoKeys and ZooKeys

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