ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE A MASTER EFFORT FOR HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a gigantic effort to organize and make available via the Internet all known information about life on nature. A series of Web sites provide the entry to these vast arrays of knowledge. These sites provide suitable information for the public in general with links for more specialized users.
The EOL dynamically synthesizes biodiversity knowledge of all known species, including their taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being, and distribute this information through the Internet.
The EOL in order to accelerate the analysis of the bio diversity process are associated with the National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio) of Costa Rica, information confirmed by James Edwrds, executive director of EOL. This association will allow The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) to access or integrate the information of the 4,074 species of Costa Rica , that the INBio describe on their own web site www.inbio.ac.cr
Counries like Spain and Australia may be incorporated to the EOL project, which is supported by experts of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Field Museum, the University of' Harvard, the MacArthur Foundation, the Laboratoire de biologie marine (MBL), the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Sloan Foundation, and theSmithsonian Institution[1],[7],[5].
When The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) will be completed it will be among the most comprehensive encyclopedia on one of the more intricate topics. The topic is as big as the earth itself and so every detail about every species under the sun will be compiled.

And to top it all, the information that the project collects will be made available on the internet. And incorporates articles based on the following areas:
• Biochemistry
• Cell Biology
• Developmental Biology
• Ecology
• Evolution and Diversity of Life
• Genetics and Disease
• Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Immunology
• Microbiology
• Neuroscience
• Plant Science
• Science and Society
• Structural Biology
• Virology