Fluidigm Corporation has announced the availability of the Access Array™ Barcode Library for the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) sequencer. This barcode library allows multiplexing of up to ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Call it a DNA digital Dewey Decimal System for all life on Earth. Every species, from extinct to thriving, is set to get its own DNA barcode in an attempt to better track the ones ...

The dry, mothball-scented stacks of a herbarium might seem to be far away from the cutting edge of plant science. However, the curated plant specimens stored there contain irreplaceable genetic, ...

An international consortium of geneticists will activate a DNA barcode library in Toronto representing almost 80,000 species, the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL) announced. The aim is to ...

I believe the barcodes can be alphanumeric (mine used to be). So the first couple characters can be a company code. That's helpful if you keep an inventory/spreadsheet of barcodes as well, as it's ...

Researchers have built a DNA barcode library for the vascular plant flora of Canada based entirely on herbarium collections. DNA barcode libraries are important to facilitate plant identification for ...

The aim is to eventually build a digital identification system for all life on Earth to reduce the time and cost of species identification. To mark the world?s largest biodiversity genomics initiative ...