Matt Yoder

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MX
a collaborative content management system for
revisionary systematists
Matt Yoder Krishna Dole Texas AM
University (PEET product)
Johan Liljeblad John Heraty Roger
Burks University of California
www.hymenoptera.ucr.edu
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MX ('m'atri'x)

• morphological matrices
• specimen and sequence data
• references
• taxonomic descriptions
• bifurcating and multi-entry keys
• biological associations
• images
• ontologies
• collecting events
• taxonomic hierarchies
• and more

• open source
• MySQL
• Ruby on Rails
• Apache
• AJAX
• outputs to Nexus/TNT
• links to MorphBank

hymenoptera.tamu.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
NSF DEB-9712543 (TAMU)
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Chalcidoidea Morphology Workshop September 2006
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Chalcidoidea Morphology Matrix

• on-line manual
• 421 adult characters
• link with molecular matrix
• 535 taxa to code
• collaborative coding
• need for state clarity
• need for error-free coding

www.hymenoptera.ucr.edu
NSF DEB-0341149 (UCR)
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hymenoptera.tamu.edu/wiki/index.php/Why_use_mx
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What do I want..

• a better GUI and navigation framework
• characters shared between projects with
  versions
• maintained as appropriate for various projects
  835.1
• links to ontology (term coordination)
• character state images in columns versus rows
  (instant visibility)
• layers in MX over MorphBank images for placing
  notations
• transfer of metadata from MorphBank (taxon,
  views, etc.)
• batch coding (adding uniform states, or deleting
  states)
• permanence
• What do you want.

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