General FAQs

How to use our databases

  • VecTraits

    Leah R. Johnson, Lauren Cator, Samuel S. C. Rund, Sadie Ryan, Paul J. Huxley, and Samraat Pawar. 2023. “VecTraits Explorer.” University of Notre Dame. https://doi.org/10.7274/28020782

    Vec Dyn

    Samuel S.C. Rund, Sadie J. Ryan, Paul J. Huxley, Catherine A. Lippi, Lauren Cator, Samraat Pawar, and Leah R. Johnson. 2023. “VecDyn Explorer.” University of Notre Dame. https://doi.org/10.7274/10083626

    The Vector Data Ecosystem

    Sadie J. Ryan, Leah R. Johnson, Catherine A. Lippi, Lauren Cator, Samraat Pawar, and Samuel S. C. Rund. 2023. “The Vector Data Ecosystem.” University of Notre Dame. https://doi.org/10.7274/27854508

    or

    Catherine A Lippi, Samuel S C Rund, Sadie J Ryan, Characterizing the Vector Data Ecosystem, Journal of Medical Entomology, Volume 60, Issue 2, March 2023, Pages 247–254

    For more info:

    https://www.vectorbyte.org/blog/how-to-cite-us

  • We have a steering committee being formed that includes experts across human, plant, and livestock VBD realms.

  • Data should be presumed to be licensed under CC-BY-NC, but data generators may have used a more permissive license. Please check with the original data generator when in doubt.

  • For VecDyn visit this link to see a list of column definitions, including which fields are required.

    For VecTrais, visit this link to see a list of column definitions, including which fields are required.

  • Please see this blog post for detailed examples and instructions for accessing the VecTraits API from .R.

  • Please see this blog post for detailed examples and instructions for accessing the VecTraits API from .R.

  • Please see this blog post.