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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."

11 of 156 comments (clear)

  1. First Post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I couldn't help myself.

    1. Re:First Post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      -400: Lamer.

  2. This Is Needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This would make it easier to buy and sell the creatures. This would make it easier to identify more and more of them. Bigger, and bigger databases...

  3. Am I the only one by jcuervo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    who wonders when, upon reading "database", what variety the database is -- e.g., MySQL?

    --
    Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
    1. Re:Am I the only one by dbolger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      As a creationist, the only question which concerns me is Which DB Would Jesus Use?

  4. No you're not the only Big Kahuna by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > As a creationist, the only question which concerns me is Which DB Would Jesus Use?

    I am quite sure Jesus would have endorsed Oracle 10g.

    (Big Kahuna: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/013/37.10 9.html)

  5. YOU FAIL IT. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jesus Up The Slashdot 'bSD is is ingesting

  6. Lolz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CAPTcha

  7. C5u8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    forme3 his own

  8. Speaking of bar codes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There are mobile phones in Japan that allow you to use the camera to take pictures of special "barcodes" and get the information from them. Basically you can put in your phone number, email address etc. and make it into a barcode which another person can take a picture of off your screen or off a business card and which saves tehm typing it in. There is some more detailed information here(It's in Japanese). I found out about this when I was looking at an article about the "World's Smallest Browser" (or so Programmer's Factory claim). I submitted that to the main page but didn't have any links in English for it. I think there were about 15,000,000 downloads of it in the first 24 hours of release.

  9. You fail i7b? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to this. For are the important 3 simple steps! S4are, this news