Reading specific data sources

At present, to use these tools, you must have Taxonome installed as a Python package (not just the application). I may make standalone versions in the future.

I hope that more tools will be added to this page as people use Taxonome with other data sources. If you write a script to read a particular data source, please get in touch so that it can be listed.

Kew grass synonymy

This requires MDB tools, which at the time of writing is avaible for Linux and Mac OS X.

• Download and unzip the database from Kew’s website.
• Download the necessary files to read it into one folder.
• Run ./extract_grasssyn.sh grassFlora.mdb

ILDIS legume database

• Download the ILDIS Explorer application, and find the Pages.dtx data file.
• Download the script to read it.
• Run python3 ildis_extract.py Pages.dtx