Turning DNA-based biodiversity outputs into citable, peer-reviewed, FAIR publications

Turning DNA-based biodiversity outputs into citable, peer-reviewed, FAIR publications

The BGE+ Abridged Grant Proposal has been published in Pensoft's Research Ideas and Outcomes Journal. To the Article Abstract The Biodiversity Genomics Europe plus (BGE+) Project builds on a pan-Eur...

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Sampling specimens for DNA barcode reference generation

The next Community Meeting will take place on Monday, 28 September, between 15:30 and 16:45 CEST. We'll start the meeting with Nikolaus Szucsich (Natural History Museum of Vienna), who will share wit...

Sampling specimens for DNA barcode reference generation requires careful metadata collection, high-quality photographic documentation, and a laboratory workflow designed to minimise contamination. The...

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Defining user needs for scaling up the distributed DNA (meta)barcoding in Europe For inquiries about this survey, please contact Michał Grabowski (michal.grabowski@biol.uni.lodz.pl) or Emily Hartop (e...

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Species discovery, yes. But also genetic diversity Protecting European biodiversity requires not only a detailed assessment of the species present in an ecosystem, but also a full characterization of ...

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Abstract. The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) initiative is building a globally accessible DNA-based system for species identification and discovery.

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ONTOLOGY is a new platform for distributed DNA barcoding and metabarcoding—is integrates freeze-dried ‘just-add-water’ PCR plates that complete indexing and amplification in one step, and software tha...

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The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA), the International Barcode of Life Europe (iBOL Europe), and the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) have signed a historic agreeme...

A landmark alliance of DNA experts across Europe signals the start of an unprecedented effort to build a continent-wide system that applies genomics for protecting European biodiversity.

On this International Day for Biological Diversity, themed “Acting locally for global impact,” we are releasing two papers that aim to facilitate the development of a robust network of DNA barcoding p...

A public consultation on the Birds and Habitats Directives is underway. Contributions will feed into a stress test of both.

Genomic technologies are transforming understanding of biodiversity, unlocking hidden species diversity, and laying new foundations for...

The next community meeting will take place on 30 March at 15:30 CEST. We will start the meeting with Christian de Guttry (Swiss Bioinformatics Institute), who will talk to us about BioDiv-FC, a proje...

On 5-6 February 2026, a workshop gathering representatives from iBOL Europe and the nascent European eDNA Society – eDNAEurope – took place at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (NL). eDNAEurope...