Title

RICHEST - a web server for richness estimation in biological data

Authors

Chris Durden and Qunfeng Dong*

Affiliation

Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Email

dongq@indiana.edu ; * Corresponding authors

Article Type

Web Server

Date

received January 22, 2009; accepted February 05, 2009; published February 27, 2009

Abstract

Richness is defined as the number of distinct species or classes in a sample or population. Although richness estimation is an important practice, it requires mathematical and computational methods that are challenging to understand and implement for biologists. We have developed a web server, RICHness ESTimator (RICHEST), which implements three non-parametric statistical methods for richness estimation. Its user-friendly web interface allows users to analyze and compare their data conveniently over the web.

Keywords

diversity estimation; biological data; complex; simple; population

A web server hosting RICHEST is accessible at http://richest.cgb.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/index.cgi and the software is freely available for local installations.

Citation

Durden & Dong, Bioinformation 3(7): 296-298 (2009)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.