Summary Biota helps you manage specimen-based biodiversity and collections data by providing an easy-to-use graphical interface to a fully relational database structure.
With a comprehensive, profusely illustrated Manual (plus a Supplement for Version 1.2) to back up intuitive menus and screens, Biota offers a rich array of user-tested tools for rapid data ... input, update, maintenance, analysis, and reporting. Biota's capable Import Editor helps you convert your existing data sets to Biota's relational structure, and a wide array of text and image file export tools provides easy access to your data for analysis and publication using other applications.
For ecologists, conservation biologists, reserve managers, and biogeographers, Biota offers efficient and flexible tools for recording and analyzing locality- or sample-based survey data, including full geographic and taxonomic information and images. Export options include species-by-collection abundance or incidence matrices based on any selection of records, ready for statistical analysis; hierarchical taxonomic files in HTML, ready to post on a Web server; and many options for text files.
For taxonomists, systematists, and collections managers, Biota offers rigorous tools for recording data and images for specimen determinations as well as for revisions and evolutionary studies. You can export species-by-character matrices in NEXUS format and virtually journal-ready Specimens Examined lists, from any selection of records. Managers of institutional or personal collections and data managers for biodiversity surveys will welcome Biota's straightforward specimen loan management system, label-printing and label text export facilities (for pinned, fluid-preserved, slide-mounted, or herbarium specimens), and Biota's client-server readiness (TCP/IP based).
Biota's features include unlimited user-definable fields; recursive specimen relations (e.g., herbivore-plant, parasite-host, DNA-specimen); automatic maintenance of a specimen determination "audit-trail"; flexible barcode/manual input for record entry, record retrieval, and loan management; and a password security system with multiple privilege levels.
Formats and Platforms. Biota is available in two formats. BiotaApp is a stand-alone, single-user application with an integrated database engine (4D Engine). You need no additional software to run BiotaApp.
The alternative format, Biota4D, intended for multiuser, networked environments, runs in true client/server mode under 4D ServerTM (ACI, Inc.). Biota4D also runs under 4th DimensionTM in single-user mode. You must purchase 4D ServerTM or 4th DimensionTM separately from a commercial vendor to run Biota4D. Other than client/server readiness, Biota4D is functionally identical with BiotaApp.
Biota data files can be used interchangeably with either BiotaApp or Biota4D, and are fully transportable between Macintosh and Windows operating systems.
Use Constraints This page is the gateway for downloads of Biota 1.6.1 for registered users (BiotaAppWin and BiotaAppMac only), and for tools you may need to convert your Biota 1 Data Files to Biota 2 format, including conversion of internal images (the only option in Biota 1) to external image files, with thumbnail links in the Biota Data File.
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