FP Clarification
We post a note clarifying how we label figures in LogletLab FP_Clarification.pdf…
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Welcome Smriti Rao!
We wish a warm welcome to our newest colleague, Smriti Rao!…
Coach and the Fly
Are USA carbon dioxide emissions now around their “natural†peak?  Following up on our postings 589 and 585 on 20 April 2009, we post a trio of figures that…
Barcode of Life site updates
We have updated and reorganized our webpages on DNA, Taxonomy, and the Barcode of Life (https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/) to keep pace with this rapidly progressing field. Among other exciting developments, the Smithsonian…
Harvard Magazine and EOL
Harvard magazine runs a pleasantly Harvard-centric article about the Encyclopedia of Life , crediting alumnus Jesse with raising the funds to launch EOL. Â He recalls doing a few other…
Phylogenetically diverse COI dataset extends evidence that rare variants are often errors
…rare variants in this dataset were less common in newer sequences, consistent with improved sequence quality over time. Rare variants were associated with low quality sequences–those with internal N’s,…
Newly discovered deep sea lobster named for Rockefeller’s Jesse Ausubel
Newly discovered deep sea lobster named for Rockefeller’s Jesse Ausubel – story from The Rockefeller University’s newswire….
DNA plus morphology speeds taxonomy
…This gave 100% match to Paratrechina longicornis, and on the corresponding Encyclopedia of Life page, I learned the common name is “Crazy ant”, an invasive species found worldwide, plus found…
UNEP methane hydrates report
The full UNEP report on methane hydrates, Frozen Heat: UNEP Global Outlook on Methane Gas Hydrates, Volume 1 & 2 as well as Executive Summary, has been published. PHE alumna…
Visualizing amino acid variation in a large BARCODE dataset
In PLoS ONE 2012 e:43992 Kevin Kerr and I reported that most of what appeared to be rare nucleotide and amino acid variants in avian BARCODEs were in fact sequencing…