Partner Nations

National, Regional and Central Nodes

iBOL is an alliance of researchers and biodiversity organizations in 27 nations divided into three categories of participation - National, Regional and Central Nodes. National Nodes will focus on collecting, identifying and curating specimens from their own territory. Regional and Central Nodes will additionally participate in barcode acquisition with the Central Nodes maintaining large core sequencing facilities. Finally, the Central Nodes will support the bioinformatics facilities required to share barcode records with all nations.