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…
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Dominique de Saint Pern
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…
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….
National Conference on Marine eDNA
Today begins our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA. A press release describes the purposes and previews some findings. The meeting is part of the continuing Monmouth University-Rockefeller University Marine…
The DNA They Leave Behind
Marine eDNA’s rapid progress and future potential highlighted by science writer Cheryl Lyn Dybas in September 2019 Oceanography, including commentary from Jesse Ausubel and Mark Stoeckle, and drawing on last…
“A Botanical Macroscope” – Jesse’s commentary in PNAS
Jesse’s commentary, “A Botanical Macroscope“, about the DNA plant barcode and its implications for the Encyclopedia of Life and related e-Biosphere initiatives, appeared in the 4 August issue of the…
Iddo Breakthrough
PHE’s Iddo Wernick was named a Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute for his work on the decoupling of resource use from the environment. This continues our connection with the…
Industrialization of the oceans
Robert Bryce, author of several good books about energy and technology, published an article in Forbes magazine drawing on Program for the Human Environment work about industrialization of the oceans…
Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland
Peak Farmland stimulates a vivid column in the Wall Street Journal by Matt Ridley on Saturday 21 December. MIND & MATTER December 21, 2012, 8:39 p.m. ET Our Fading Footprint…