Introduction to "Nanopublications for Biodiversity"

Nanopublications allow researchers to ‘fragment’ their most important scientific findings into ‘pixels of knowledge’, where each assertion becomes findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). Nanopublications can also be used to annotate existing publications or other online resources.

The Nanopublications-for-Biodiversity workflow and templates support various associations, such as those between organisms, between taxa, between taxa and environments, and between organisms and nucleotide sequences amongst others. To do this, the domain-specific workflow and templates rely on community-agreed and widely used standards and persistent identifiers and API services from the likes of ChecklistBank, Catalogue of Life, GBIF, GenBank/ENA, BOLD, Darwin Core, ZooBank, Index Fungorum, MycoBank, IPNI, and TreatmentBank.

Nanopublications can be published in association with a manuscript in BDJ, as standalone publications related to any other article or online resource, or as annotations to any article published on ARPHA.

Nanopublications-for-Biodiversity is a collaboration project between Pensoft and Knowledge Pixels AG using the Nanodash tool.