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Nature 449, 23 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449023a; Published online 5 September 2007
Taxonomy: The Collector
Abstract
How Paddy Patterson, one of the architects of the Encyclopedia of Life, hopes to present biodiversity to the world.
David 'Paddy' Patterson started his career off small, working on the taxonomy of protists and protozoa and putting descriptions of them up on the web in projects such as Micro*scope, Microbial Life and the International Census of Marine Microbes. Now, the biologist, who works in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is going macro in a big way with the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a project that intends to create a website for every known species on Earth.
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