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= 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 into a ruby hash
  parser.parse("Plantago major")
  
  #to get json representation
  parser.parse("Plantago").to_json
  #or
  parser.parse("Plantago")
  parser.all_json
  
  # to clean name up
  parser.parse("             Plantago       major    ")[:normalized]
  
  # 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")

Version data entries

1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
dimus-biodiversity-0.5.11	README.rdoc