In July 2007 the Marine Barcode of Life initiative (MarBOL) surfaced at www.marinebarcoding.org. MarBOL is “an international initiative to enhance our capacity to identify marine life by utilizing DNA barcoding”….
341 researchers from 44 countries gathered for the Second International Barcode of Life Conference, held at Academia Sinica, Tapei, Taiwan on 17-21 September 2007 (program, participants, and abstracts at www.dnabarcodes2007.org)….
…taxonomic information science is uBio (Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer) www.ubio.org, “an initiative within the science library community to join international efforts to create and utilize a comprehensive and collaborative…
…how DNA can help. Worheide and Erpenbeck describe the nascent Sponge Barcoding Project www.spongebarcoding.org, which aims to collect DNA signature sequences [COI barcodes] from all 8,000 known marine intertidal, deep…
…information prominently on the various barcoding web sites will help (see for example SpongeBOL home page www.spongebarcoding.org link to illustrated primer primer!). I close with note this is post #100…
As of 28 january 2008, there are 341,825 barcode records from 35,798 species in the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD) www.barcodinglife.org . What sectors of biodiversity have been analyzed so…
…have deposited 516,134 barcode records from 50,138 species in Barcode of Life Database (BOLD) www.barcodinglife.org. According to my analysis of GenBank shown in figure, this puts COI BOLD records far…
…those provided by BOLD ID engine (www.barcodinglife.org), largely reflecting that the ID engine uses a 2% cutoff for assigning specimens to species, which encompasses all eight Thunnus sp. In addition,…
…officially adopted DNA barcoding for detection of seafood fraud https://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/Product-SpecificInformation/Seafood/DNAspeciation/default.htm More on “Sushi-gate” Among 60 items tested: Nile Perch (Africa), Lavender Jobfish (SE Asia), Slender Pinjalo (SE Asia), and Acadian Redfish (N Atlantic) sold as “Red Snapper“…
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