ACACIA: a generic conceptual schema for taxonomic databases

Abstract

ACACIA is both a generic data schema for relational taxonomic databases and a software package which implements this schema. The schema allows for the efficient representation of all data classes required for the storage and retrieval of biodiversity data, from taxonomic to ecological and genomic levels. The ACACIA software package for the management of biodiversity databases, written in the PHP language, is available from https://github.com/maurobio/acacia under the GPL v3 free license.