The word ecoinformatics was coined less than a decade ago and is defined as “the science of information in ecology and environmental science."  TraitNet is committed to implementing cutting-edge semantic technologies to improve the curation, discovery, and sharing of ecological data. 

The growth in ecoinformatics research has given rise to a dedicated scientific journal: Ecological Informatics

• Bioinformatics
• International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA)
• Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB)
• Online Journal of Bioinformatics (OJB)
• Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (JIB)

Ecoinformatics initiatives:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• Biodiversity Information Standards

• DataOne
• NCEAS Ecoinformatics
  
• NESCent Informatics
  
• National Biological Information Infrastructure

• EU's Ecoinformatics Initiative
• European Bioinformatics Institute