July 2007

Several projects selected for testing with EarthCape.

May 2007

TAXIS will be followed by EarthCape - online platform for hosting, sharing and publishing of biodiversity data. Please, contact for details.

July 2006

Planning and development of TAXIS "version next" started.

09 August 2005

TAXIS Patch 3.5.3.35 is posted. Click here to download. Here is the list of bugs fixed.

17 November 2004

TAXIS Patch 3.5.3.4 is posted. Click here to download. Here is the list of bugs fixed.

27 October 2004

TAXIS Patch 3.5.2.1 is posted. Here is the list of bugs fixed.

27 September 2004

TAXIS 3.5 Free update has been posted. Read here what's new in this update. The hightlight of this update is References section that has been powered with compatibility with major bibliographic applications via support RIS format.

Windows Help topics has been substantially improved. It is now available with TAXIS installation as normal Windows Help Topics including context senstive F1 response and "What's this?" command. Online copy and PDF Manual are available also.

Discussion topic has been added to TAXIS Forum.

07 January 2004

TAXIS 3.0 has been released!!! It is now available in two versions: Standard and Professional
Standard version inherits all the features of TAXIS 2 and adds some new functions (read more in help).
Professional version incorporates all the capability of Standard and adds built-in GIS (Geographic Information System) support (read more in help).

09 November 2003

Forum for TAXIS users is open.

03 February 2003

TAXIS 2.1 is available for download.
TAXIS Help has NOT been updated yet.

23 January 2002

New website is set up.

27 November 2001

TAXIS 2.06 is available for download.
TAXIS Help is updated.

4 October 2001

Bio-Tools.Net web site is launched.

25 March 2001

TAXIS 2.05 is uploaded and available for download.
Check what's new.

19 March 2001

Help now contains the actual database structure with detailed description of used data fields.
Will be uploaded together with TAXIS 2.05.

05 February 2001

Online help is available. It can also be downloaded for viewing offline.

31 January 2001

TAXIS 2.04 is uploaded and available for download.
Help is almost completed and should be uploaded next week.

22 January 2002

New web site is set up.

14 December 2000

TAXIS 2.03 Beta is uploaded and available for download.

13 December 2000

Registration procedure has been added. Check out the special offers for first registering users and beta-testers.

13 November 2000

Help section is temporarily disconnected (it's coming back soon).

21 October 2000

TAXIS 2.02 Beta is uploaded and available for download.

31 July 2000

TAXIS 2.01 Beta is uploaded and available for download.

July 2000

Help section is added.

July 2000

The development of  'Characters' section is started.

July 2000

New web site is launched 

January 2000

TAXIS web site is restructured.

15 January 2000

The update is available for download (it fixes some bugs in Polypores of Finland software). NOTE: the update is valid only after the product is installed from the official CD-ROM.

November 1999

Polypores of Finland is completed and the development on TAXIS 2.0 is started to add properties which enable it to work with other groups of organisms but polypores.

5 November 1999

TAXIS web site is published.

September 1999

Testing of Polypores database in field courses in Lapland and Lammi, Finland.

January 1999

The development of TAXIS started.