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An example of a folio in use: you want to reference a sequence of images in a paper but there is not enough space, so you opt to publish the images online and print the URL in the paper. If those images are in your published MorphoBank project you can create a new folio (complete with title and introductory text), add the relevant images and place them in the proper order. When readers go to the URL printed in the paper they will see your introductory text and be able to click through to each image in the proper order.
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Common Types of Projects
MorphoBank provides a generally useful set of tools to assist you with your research. While no particular workflow is mandated, many MorphoBank projects tend to fall into one of the three categories, described in the following sections. Your work need not conform to these examples, but they should give you an idea of the types of project for which MorphoBank can be useful.
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It is particularly critical in projects of this type that all participants have access to the most up to date data at all times. MorphoBank's centralized database and web-based access ensures that this is always the case.
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Navigation
One navigates among the various tools and options in MorphoBank using the main navigation bar at the top of the screen and the left, sub-navigation menu available on some site sections. The main navigation bar is composed of links which lead to a specific section of the site or tool.
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Note that once logged in you will remain logged in - even if you close or quit your browser - for up to 72 hours, unless you explicitly log out.
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Funding for MorphoBank
MorphoBank is currently funded by a Sustained Availability of Biological Infrastructure Award (DBI-2049965) from the National Science Foundation to MorphoBank Director Tanya Berardini at Phoenix Bioinformatics and by membership fees from academic institutions and museums around the world. MorphoBank version 1 was funded by National Science Foundation grant DEB-9903964 to Maureen O'Leary and with financial assistance from the American Museum of Natural History. MorphoBank version 2 was funded by NOAA (NA04OAR4700191). MorphoBank 2.5 and later versions developed in 2008-21 were funded awards from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences (EAR-0622359) and a Sustaining Award (DBI-1457925) from the National Science Foundation's Advances in Biological Informatics program.
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Citing MorphoBank in your publications
When you use MorphoBank please cite the software:
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O'Leary, M. A., and S. Kaufman. 2011. MorphoBank: phylophenomics in the 'cloud'. Cladistics. 27:1-9.
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MorphoBank API
The MorphoBank public API supports HTTP GET requests for published resources. API documentation is available here.
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