B. Ananda Subhash

Provides functions to aid the identification of probable/possible duplicates in Plant Genetic Resources (PGR) collections using 'passport databases' comprising of information records of each constituent sample. These include methods for cleaning the data, creation of a searchable Key Word in Context (KWIC) index of keywords associated with sample records and the identification of nearly identical records with similar information by fuzzy, phonetic and semantic matching of keywords.