MycoBank: an online initiative to launch mycology into the 21st century

An on-line database, MycoBank (http://www.MycoBank.org), is launched with a remit to document mycological nomenclatural novelties and their associated descriptions and illustrations. The nomenclatural novelties will each be allocated a unique accession number that can be cited in the publication where the nomenclatural novelty is introduced. These accession numbers will also be incorporated into Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) (http://www-124.ibm.com/ developerworks/oss/lsid) allocated by the nomenclatural database Index Fungorum (http://www.IndexFungorum.org), with which MycoBank is associated. Nomenclatural experts will be available to check the validity, legitimacy and linguistic correctness of the…