DNA Barcoding Prizes for first Nature, Science publications
First proposed in 2003, the DNA barcoding initiative has generated more than 1000 scientific publications, but none so far in the de facto top science journals, Nature and Science. The…
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Mark Stoeckle commentary in The Auk
A global survey of avian tissue resources, co-authored by Mark Stoeckle, appears in the July 2009 issue of The Auk. The survey identifies over 317,000 specimens in 29 collections representing…
FDA certifies barcoding for seafood ID, opening commercial, educational opportunities
Seafood is often mislabeled–in the past year, barcode surveys in Canada (Hanner et al 2011), Ireland (Miller et al 2011), Spain (ICIJ 2011), United Kingdom, and United States (Boston Globe,…
PNAS Dematerialization
For generations, people have lightened their environmental impact by multiplying their consumption less than their income. A combination of consumers tempering their consumption of goods and producers making the goods…
Maglevs in the NY Times
…runs a new story :Ecco perché auto senza pilota e treni iperveloci non ci faranno … Corriere della Sera–Aug 15, 2017 La scienziata comportamentale Jesse Ausubel si è in pratica…
Mt paper supports Darwinian evolution
The article Why should mitochondria define species? Stoeckle M.Y., Thaler D.S. is grounded in and strongly supports Darwinian evolution, including the understanding all life has evolved from a common biological…
How accurate are BARCODE databases?
DNA barcode databases are a kind of wikipedia of DNA identifiers, with contributions by thousands of researchers. How accurate are they? How do records that meet the BARCODE standard compare…
More on BARCODEs as BIG DATA: Visualizing evolutionary constraint (II)
Last week’s post looked at amino acid variation among avian BARCODEs (11,000 sequences, 2,700 bird species). The findings were that common variants (present in >0.1% of sequences) are few and…
Painting of the Ausubel family lobster
Massachusetts artist Olivia Pattison who paints an animal each day has painted the Dinochelus ausubeli, the deepwater lobster named for the Ausubel family….
Barcoding Life Highlights 2013
In recognition of the Fifth International Barcode of Life Conference opening next week in Kunming, China, we offer Barcoding Life Highlights 2013. This eight page pdf takes a look…