Dallwitz, M.J. 1996 onwards. Programs for interactive identification and information retrieval. http://delta-intkey.com DELTA Home

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Programs for Interactive Identification and Information Retrieval

20 May 2008

M. J. Dallwitz

Programs based on DELTA data files

ActKey. Free. WWW. Hong Song.

DAP – ‘Delta Access Perl’. Free. WWW. Axel Findling.

DAWI – ‘Delta Access Web Interface’. Free. WWW. Axel Findling.

Intkey. Free. Windows. Mike Dallwitz, Toni Paine, and Eric Zurcher.

NaviKey V4. Free. WWW (Java). Dieter Neubacher and Gerhard Rambold. V3. Dan McGillicuddy. V2.3. Michael Bartley and Noel Cross (Internet Archive: http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/computerlab/web_keys/navikey/).

ONLINE (PANKEY). Commercial. MS-DOS. Richard Pankhurst.

PollyClave. Free. WWW. Andrew Pavacic and Tim Dickinson.

SIIMM – ‘Serveur d’Identification Interactive MultiMedia’. Free. WWW (Java). Pierre Goujon.

TAXASOFT. Shareware. MS-DOS. Eric Gouda.

Other programs

20q. Free. WWW. John Pickering.

3I. Free. WWW. Dmitry Dmitriev.

ASKATAXA. Free. MS-DOS. Fred Rhoades. No longer supported.

CABIKEY. Commercial. MS-DOS, Windows. Ian White. No longer supported. Internet Archive: http://pest.cabweb.org/identification/biosys.htm (Jan 16, 2003).

DET. Free. Windows. Audrius Meskauskas.

FLORA. Free. Windows. Hans ter Steege.

Gencomex. Commercial. Windows. Asociación de Biólogos Amigos de la Computación.

IdentifyIt (Linnaeus II). Commercial, but free if you register as an ETI partner. Mac, Windows. ETI.

KEY. Free. MS-DOS. Colin Legg.

Lucid2. Commercial. Windows. Centre for Biological Information Technology, University of Queensland.

Lucid3. Commercial. WWW (Java). Centre for Biological Information Technology, University of Queensland.

Lysandra. Commercial. Windows.

MEKA. Free. Windows. Christopher Meacham.

PalmKey. Free. PalmOS. Cam Webb.

PHPKey. Free. Web browsers. Magnus Lindh.

PICKEY, BIKEY. Commercial. Windows. A. L. Lobanov and M. B. Dianov.

PLATO. Commercial. Windows. Elizabeth Dauncey.

POLLY. Commercial. Windows. Trevor Whiffin.

SLIKS. Free. WWW. Gerald (Stinger) Guala.

TAXIS. Commercial (free for students). Windows. Evgeniy Meyke.

TAXY. Free. Mac, MS-DOS, Sun SPARC, SGI IRIX. Nathan Wilson.

Visual Key. Free. WWW. B. OConnor and P. Klimov

X:ID. Free. WWW. David Remsen and Patrick Leary.

XID. Commercial. Windows. Richard Old.

XPER. Free. Jacques Lebbe and Régine Vignes-Lebbe.

Xper2. Free. Antoine Chalubert, Guillaume Dubus, Cyril Gallut, Benjamin Pavie, and Régine Vignes-Lebbe.

Programs no longer available

ARTEMIS. Free. WWW. Roland Keller and Benoit Carpentier. Internet Archive: http://www.tropicalbotany.net/

CompuKey. Commercial. MS-DOS. CompuKey Software Inc. Internet Archive: http://www.8d.com/compukey/

DETGR-UK. Free. MS-DOS. Kees Ulje.

FAMEX. Commercial. MS-DOS. Asociación de Biólogos Amigos de la Computación. Internet Archive: http://jlagunez.iquimica.unam.mx/~abaco/famex.htm

FLORA. Windows. Eirene Williams.

Fuskey. Free. WWW. Keith Seifert.

Keyout. Free. Windows. J. Bayers.

PolyKey. Free. WWW. James Adaskaveg. Internet Archive: http://polykey.ucdavis.edu/

SKEdit/SKBrowse/SynKey. Windows 3.0. Roland Senn. Internet Archive: http://www.cpedu.rug.nl/~S0903701/biosoft/synkeyread.txt

Further information

Dallwitz, M.J. 2000 onwards. A comparison of interactive identification programs. http://delta-intkey.com

Dallwitz, M.J. 2000 onwards. Comparison of the main screens of Intkey and Lucid. http://delta-intkey.com

Dallwitz, M.J., Paine, T.A. and Zurcher, E.J. 2000 onwards. Principles of interactive keys. http://delta-intkey.com

Dallwitz, M.J., Paine, T.A., and Zurcher, E.J. 2002 onwards. Interactive identification using the Internet. http://delta-intkey.com.

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