Bioinspire-Explore

Bioinspire-Explore navigates biodiversity data to uncover biological systems of interest for bioinspired innovation across multiple sectors.

Key Features:

• Taxonomy-driven search: Users search for biological models by taxa including species and genera as an entry point.
• Tree of life visualization: The tool displays a taxon's position in the phylogenetic tree of life.
• Distribution and climatic niche data: The tool provides information on geographic distribution and climatic niche for each taxon.
• Appearance information: The tool includes visual and morphological appearance data for taxa.
• Semantic literature connections: The tool connects taxa to bioinspiration literature through semantic proximity, revealing associated biological processes, habitats, and physical measurements.

Scientific Applications:

• Bioinspired design: Practitioners access biological data in a form relevant for bioinspired innovation across different fields and sectors.
• Biodiversity research: Biologists explore taxonomic relationships, distributions, and ecological characteristics of organisms.
• Cross-disciplinary bioinspiration: The tool bridges biodiversity databases and bioinspiration literature to facilitate discovery of biological models for design applications.

Methodology:

The tool integrates open-access biodiversity databases and connects taxa to bioinspiration literature through semantic proximity analysis.