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Nature 394, 118-119 (9 July 1998) | doi:10.1038/28021

Museum world gears up to the 'big bang' of informatics

"What would Linnaeus have invented if he had lived in the twenty-first century and grown up with the Internet?" The question is posed in the prologue to a plan to create and link biodiversity databases around the world to provide a computer-based infrastructure similar to that which exists for molecular biology and genome research.