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Press Commentary

See also the media page at barcodinglife.org.

2007-09-20
Economist: "Name, Rank, and Serial Number"

2005-02-18
Science: "Will DNA Bar Codes Breathe Life Into Classification?"

2004-12-14
New York Times: "A Species in a Second: Promise of DNA 'Bar Codes'" (see also graphic)

2004-12-04
Science News: "Life under the scanner"

2004-09-30
The Economist: "All bar none? There may be more species on Earth than previously imagined"

2004-09-28
The Scientist: "Taxonomy isn't black and white: DNA barcoding method put to the test reveals new cryptic bird and butterfly species"

2004-09-28
CBC News: "DNA barcodes may tell species apart"

2004-09-27
Science: "DNA Barcoders Nab New Species"

2004-09-27
Nature: DNA barcodes tag species

2004-09-01
Popular Science: readers ask: "Will scientists ever be able to catalog all the species on Earth?"

2004-03-30
La Republica: article about barcoding in Spanish in a Costa Rican newspaper

2004-02-01
BioScience: Ron O’Dor on barcoding for species discovery in the Census of Marine Life.

2004-01-01
Z+Partners blog: “A ‘Google for Lifeforms’: Biological Taxonomy in the 21st Century”: commentary on DNA barcoding as an emerging futures issue 

2003-09-03
San Jose Mercury: general coverage.

2003-09-01
Barcode Conference: Dan Janzen’s stimulating vision of public access to tools to identify all plant and animal life

2003-03-31
BioScience: A summary of the March 2003 “Taxonomy and DNA” conference.



About this site

This web site is an outgrowth of the Taxonomy, DNA, and Barcode of Life meeting held at Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, September 9-12, 2003. It is designed and managed by Mark Stoeckle, Perrin Meyer, and Jason Yung at the Program for the Human Environment (PHE) at The Rockefeller University.

About the Program for the Human Environment

The involvement of the Program for the Human Environment in DNA barcoding dates to Jesse Ausubel's attendance in February 2002 at a conference in Nova Scotia organized by the Canadian Center for Marine Biodiversity. At the conference, Paul Hebert presented for the first time his concept of large-scale DNA barcoding for species identification. Impressed by the potential for this technology to address difficult challenges in the Census of Marine Life, Jesse agreed with Paul on encouraging a conference to explore the contribution taxonomy and DNA could make to the Census as well as other large-scale terrestrial efforts. In his capacity as a Program Director of the Sloan Foundation, Jesse turned to the Banbury Conference Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, whose leader Jan Witkowski prepared a strong proposal to explore both the scientific reliability of barcoding and the processes that might bring it to broad application. Concurrently, PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle began to work with the Hebert lab on analytic studies of barcoding in birds. Our involvement in barcoding now takes 3 forms: assisting the organizational development of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life and the Barcode of Life Initiative; contributing to the scientific development of the field, especially by studies in birds, and contributing to public understanding of the science and technology of barcoding and its applications through improved visualization techniques and preparation of brochures and other broadly accessible means, including this website. While the Sloan Foundation continues to support CBOL through a grant to the Smithsonian Institution, it does not provide financial support for barcoding research itself or support to the PHE for its research in this field.