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Identifying World's Species With Genetic Bar Codes

Posted by samzenpus on from the scan-the-fish-first dept.

Fokker writes "Reuters reports that scientists from around the world launched a project on thursday to genetically identify species using bar codes. By taking a snippet of DNA from all the known species on Earth and linking them to photographs, descriptions and scientific information, the researchers plan to build the largest database of its kind."

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  1. how long until by mirko · · Score: 2, Insightful

    sombody thinks about determining human species based on their DNA ?

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  2. A Few Less Species by _Hellfire_ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The sad part is that by the time they get around to barcoding all of them, we'll have a few less species around to bar code.

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  3. Re:Um... GenBank? by dan+dan+the+dna+man · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NCBI's taxonomy is widely regarded to be.. well suspect by people working in the taxonomy field. In fact there is NO common taxonomy system, contrary to popular belief. Like many other areas of science it is beset with individuals who *talk* co-operation and fail to do it.

    I have seen taxonmy comparisons from various sources and NCBI's is by no means definitive.

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