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Programs for interactive identification and information retrieval

12 June 2020

M.J. Dallwitz

Please contact the author if you have corrections, or information about other programs that should be included. The criteria for inclusion are:

  1. The program should be a true interactive-key program, as defined by Dallwitz et al. (2000) – that is, a multi-access key implemented on a computer.
  2. The program should be a general one, capable of using different data files – that is, the data should not be embedded in the program.

Programs based on DELTA data files

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. Free. WWW (Java). Dieter Neubacher and Gerhard Rambold.

ONLINE (PANKEY). Commercial. MS-DOS. Richard Pankhurst. No longer available.

Other programs

20q. Free. WWW. John Pickering.

3I. Free. WWW. Dmitry Dmitriev.

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

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

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

MEKA. Free. Windows. Christopher Meacham.

PHPKey. Free. WWW. Magnus Lindh.

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

PLATO. Commercial. Windows. Elizabeth Dauncey.

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

TAXY. Free. Macintosh, 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.

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

Xper3. WWW. Free. Laboratory of Informatics and Systematics of University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6).

Programs no longer supported

ActKey. Free. WWW. Hong Song. web.archive.org/web/20080513191050/http://flora.huh.harvard.edu:8080/actkey/index.jsp (13 May 2008).

ASKATAXA. Free. MS-DOS. Fred Rhoades.

CABIKEY. Commercial. MS-DOS, Windows. Ian White. web.archive.org/web/20050830075846/http://pest.cabweb.org/identification/biosys.htm (30 August 2005).

CompuKey. Commercial. MS-DOS. CompuKey Software Inc. web.archive.org/web/20000925164110/http://www.8d.com/compukey/ (25 September 2000)

DET. Free. Windows. Audrius Meskauskas.

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

FAMEX. Commercial. MS-DOS. Asociación de Biólogos Amigos de la Computación. web.archive.org/web/20001031084530/jlagunez.iquimica.unam.mx/~abaco/famex.htm (31 October 2000).

FLORA. Free. Windows. Hans ter Steege. web.archive.org/web/20100821064917/http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/Guyana/VTGG/Main.htm (21 August 2010).

FLORA. Windows. Eirene Williams. web.archive.org/web/20070615220320/www.media.uwe.ac.uk/masoud/cal-97/papers/williams.htm (15 June 2007).

Fuskey. Free. WWW. Keith Seifert. web.archive.org/web/20120207023926/www.ctu.edu.vn/colleges/agri/gtrinh/fuskey.pdf (7 February 2012).

IdentifyIt (Linnaeus II). Commercial, but free if you register as an ETI partner. Macintosh, Windows. ETI. web.archive.org/web/20140310231608/www.eti.uva.nl/products/linnaeus.php (10 March 2014)

KEY. Free. MS-DOS. Colin Legg.

Keyout. Free. Windows. J. Bayers.

Lysandra. Commercial. Windows. https://web.archive.org/web/20070607164254/http://www.bonk.ru/lysandra/english/ (7 June 2007).

Navikey. For current version, see NaviKey. V3. Dan McGillicuddy. V2.3. Michael Bartley and Noel Cross. web.archive.org/web/20020402054919/www.herbaria.harvard.edu/computerlab/web_keys/navikey/ (2 April 2002).

PalmKey. Free. PalmOS. Cam Webb. web.archive.org/web/20120119212331/http://www.phylodiversity.net/palmkey/ (19 January 2012)

POLLY. Commercial. Windows. Trevor Whiffin. web.archive.org/web/20090402145803/https://www.latrobe.edu.au/botany/rainforests/keys/ (2 April 2009).

PollyClave. Free. WWW. Andrew Pavacic and Tim Dickinson. web.archive.org/web/20030207204221/prod.library.utoronto.ca/polyclave/ (7 February 2003).

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

SIIMM – ‘Serveur d’Identification Interactive MultiMedia’. Free. WWW (Java). Pierre Goujon. web.archive.org/web/20140310234514/http://abiris.snv.jussieu.fr/identification/introduction.html (10 March 2014).

SKEdit/SKBrowse/SynKey. Windows 3.0. Roland Senn. web.archive.org/web/20001119093700/www.cpedu.rug.nl/~S0903701/biosoft/synkeyread.txt (19 November 2000)

TAXIS. Commercial (free for students). Windows. Evgeniy Meyke. web.archive.org/web/20090630002753/http://www.bio-tools.net/index.htm (30 June 2009).

XPER. Superceded by Xper2. Free. Jacques Lebbe and Régine Vignes-Lebbe. web.archive.org/web/20090212204241/http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/apps/xper/ (12 February 2009).

Further information

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

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

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

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

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