Rapid data release for barcode data
…data release policies hammered out by the genomics community as a precedent. At a 1996 summit in Bermuda, leaders of the scientific community agreed on a groundbreaking set of principles…
…data release policies hammered out by the genomics community as a precedent. At a 1996 summit in Bermuda, leaders of the scientific community agreed on a groundbreaking set of principles…
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…
Mark Stoeckle’s mentee, Samara Davis, earned the Grand prize in Science at the Genius Olympiad, an international high school project competition about environment issues, with her project on censusing threatened…
Produced by PHE associate and acoustician Perrin Meyer, polartide.org is an interactive meditation on time, oil stocks, and sea levels for the Maldives Pavillion at the 55th Venice Biennale. polartide…
Team members of the project “Using New Anthropological and Biological Tools to Learn about Leonardo da Vinci” with seed money from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation met 2-3 May in Florence,…
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…
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…
The French newspaper Le Monde on 15 August 2008 featured an excellent article and an interview by Dominique de Saint Pern about the technical and scientific progress of the film…
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…
Massachusetts artist Olivia Pattison who paints an animal each day has painted the Dinochelus ausubeli, the deepwater lobster named for the Ausubel family….