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Published online 14 March 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020311-9
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Ants make web
Formidable catalogue puts army of ants online.
After four years of cooperation and tenacity worthy of their quarry, ant experts have completed Antbase, a centralized, online information resource cataloguing all 11,000 known species of ant.
Its creators hope that Antbase will one day become the ant equivalent of GenBank, the public database of genetic sequence data, and a boon not just for ant specialists, but for entomologists and ecologists of every kind.
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