The question of creating a database of medicinal plants of the Tuva Republic, using modern information technologies
Purpose. Creation of a database of medicinal plants of the Republic of Tuva using geoinformation technologies. Methods. The objects of research are populations of wild medicinal plants growing in natural habitats. Research was carried out in the period 1996-2018. Data on medicinal plants, stocks of above-ground and underground phytomass, biological and operational reserves are stored in the PDF format of Adobe Acrobat 8.0. The main element of the database (DB) is the form and the table. All data is located in the table, the fields of which are displayed in the database form. Each entry refers to a particular type of a plant, and in the appropriate field are the characteristics. Results. The created computer scientific database "Medicinal plants of the Republic of Tuva" contains a systematic list of species of vascular plants of the flora of the Republic, which consists of 200 species. The GIS map "Medicinal plants of the Republic of Tuva" was created, where the software product ArcView GIS was used as the basis. Summary. The introduction of modern information technologies in the data collection process opens up new opportunities in biological and environmental research. The developed database can be used to study the characteristics of medicinal plants in different regions, to conduct a complete taxonomic and typological analysis of medicinal plants, to solve methodological problems in the study of plants, as well as for monitoring.