The Taxonomic Search Engine provides LSIDs for the taxonomic databases that it queries, namely ITIS, IPNI, Index Fungorum, NCBI, uBio, Hymenoptera Name Server, and Sp2000. The search engine itself is described in a paper in BMC Bioinformatics, and source code is available on SourceForge.
Contact:
Professor Roderic Page
Editor, Systematic Biology
DEEB, IBLS
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QP
United Kingdom