Comments on: Growing DNA barcode database leaps past 50,000 species http://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog/2008/11/29/growing-dna-barcode-database-leaps-past-50000-species/ About DNA barcoding Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:28:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Dave Lunt http://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog/2008/11/29/growing-dna-barcode-database-leaps-past-50000-species/comment-page-1/#comment-83819 Dave Lunt Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:05:56 +0000 http://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog/?p=1133#comment-83819 Very impressive indeed. I agree about the value of getting these into GenBank. Although BOLD is quite powerful in some ways the value of these records is reduced by not being open access. The excellent Hebert et al 2003 paper downloaded and analysed all available COI sequences, I don't see it possible to do anything similar anymore given that most sequences are now restricted. Some creative thought needed as you say to change this while maintaining academic credit. Interesting times ahead for large scale analyses (I hope). -- Hebert et al. Barcoding animal life: cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 divergences among closely related species. Proc Biol Sci (2003) vol. 270 Suppl 1 pp. S96-9 Very impressive indeed. I agree about the value of getting these into GenBank. Although BOLD is quite powerful in some ways the value of these records is reduced by not being open access. The excellent Hebert et al 2003 paper downloaded and analysed all available COI sequences, I don’t see it possible to do anything similar anymore given that most sequences are now restricted. Some creative thought needed as you say to change this while maintaining academic credit. Interesting times ahead for large scale analyses (I hope).

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Hebert et al. Barcoding animal life: cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 divergences among closely related species. Proc Biol Sci (2003) vol. 270 Suppl 1 pp. S96-9

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