Global Names Finder

Finds scientific names using dictionary and nlp approaches.

• Features
• Install as a command line app
  • Linux or OS X
  • Windows
  • Go
• Usage
  • Usage as a command line app
  • Usage as gRPC service
  • Usage as a library
  • Usage as a docker container
• Development
  • Install protobuf on Mac
  • Install protobuf on Linux
  • Install gnfinder
• Testing

Features

• Multiplatform packages (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X).
• Self-contained, no external dependencies, only binary gnfinder or gnfinder.exe (~15Mb) is needed. However the internet connection is required for name-verification.
• Takes UTF8-encoded text and returns back JSON-formatted output that contains detected scientific names.
• Optionally, automatically detects the language of the text, and adjusts Bayes algorithm for the language. English and German languages are currently supported.
• Uses complementary heuristic and natural language processing algorithms.
• Optionally verifies found names against multiple biodiversity databases using gnindex service.
• Detection of nomenclatural annotations like sp. nov., comb. nov., ssp. nov. and their variants.
• Ability to see words that surround detected name-strings.
• The library can be used concurrently to significantly improve speed. On a server with 40threads it is able to detect names on 50 million pages in approximately 3 hours using both heuristic and Bayes algorithms. Check bhlindex project for an example.

Install as a command line app

Download the binary executable for your operating system from the latest release.

Linux or OS X

Move gnfinder executabe somewhere in your PATH (for example /usr/local/bin)

sudo mv path_to/gnfinder /usr/local/bin

Windows

One possible way would be to create a default folder for executables and place gnfinder there.

Use Windows+R keys combination and type "cmd". In the appeared terminal window type:

mkdir C:\bin
copy path_to\gnfinder.exe C:\bin

Add C:\bin directory to your PATH environment variable.

Go

go get github.com/gnames/gnfinder
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/gnames/gnfinder
make install

Usage

Usage as a command line app

To see flags and usage:

gnfinder --help
# or just
gnfinder

To see the version of its binary:

gnfinder -v

Examples:

Getting data from a pipe forcing English language and verification

echo "Pomatomus saltator and Parus major" | gnfinder find -c -l eng

Displaying matches from NCBI and Encyclopedia of Life, if exist. For the list of data source ids go gnresolver.

echo "Pomatomus saltator and Parus major" | gnfinder find -c -l eng -s "4,12"

Returning 5 words before and after found name-candidate.

gnfinder find -t 5 file_with_names.txt

Getting data from a file and redirecting result to another file

gnfinder find file1.txt > file2.json

Detection of nomenclatural annotations

echo "Parus major sp. n." | gnfinder find

Usage as gRPC service

Start gnfinder as a gRPC server:

# using default 8778 port
gnfinder grpc

# using some other port
gnfinder grpc -p 8901

Use a gRPC client for gnfinder. To learn how to make one, check a Ruby implementation of a client.

Usage as a library

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/gnames/gnfinder
make deps

import (
  "github.com/gnames/gnfinder"
)

bytesText := []byte(utfText)

gnf := gnfinder.NewGNfinder()
jsonNames := gnf.FindNamesJSON(bytesText)
fmt.Println(string(output))

Usage as a docker container

docker pull gnames/gnfinder

# run gnfinder server, and map it to port 8888 on the host machine
docker run -d -p 8888:8778 --name gnfinder gnames/gnfinder

Development

To install the latest gnfinder

Download protoc binary compiled for your OS from protobuf releases.

Install protobuf on Mac

brew install protobuf

If you see any error messages, run brew doctor, follow any recommended fixes, and try again. If it still fails, try instead:

brew upgrade protobuf

Alternately, run the following commands:

PROTOC_ZIP=protoc-3.11.4-osx-x86_64.zip
curl -OL https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.11.4/$PROTOC_ZIP
sudo unzip -o $PROTOC_ZIP -d /usr/local bin/protoc
sudo unzip -o $PROTOC_ZIP -d /usr/local 'include/*'
rm -f $PROTOC_ZIP

Or manually download and install protoc from protobuf releases.

Install protobuf on Linux

Run the following commands:

PROTOC_ZIP=protoc-3.11.4-linux-x86_64.zip
curl -OL https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.11.4/$PROTOC_ZIP
sudo unzip -o $PROTOC_ZIP -d /usr/local bin/protoc
sudo unzip -o $PROTOC_ZIP -d /usr/local 'include/*'
rm -f $PROTOC_ZIP

Or manually download and install protoc from protobuf releases.

Install gnfinder

go get github.com/gnames/gnfinder
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/gnames/gnfinder
make deps
make
gnfinder -h

Testing

Install [ginkgo], a [BDD] testing framefork for Go.

make deps

To run tests go to root directory of the project and run

ginkgo

#or

go test

#or

make test