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Barcoding Campaigns
A number of campaigns have started to collect and register DNA barcodes from specific families and regions of life. Learn more…
Building the Barcode Library
Currently: 1,622,235 specimens 154,294 species Target for 2015: 5,000,000 specimens 500,000 species Learn more…
How iBOL Works
It takes a lot of different people with different talents to get the job done. Read about global participation in iBOL and how it works. Learn more…
Making Every Species Count
What would it be like to live in a bio-literate world – a world where you could know, in minutes, the name of any animal or plant – any time, anywhere? And not just its name but everything about it – what are its habits, is it endangered, is it dangerous, should it even be [...]
The International Barcode of Life
The International Barcode of Life project (iBOL) has one overarching goal – to assemble the sequence library and the technology necessary to identify organisms rapidly and inexpensively. This goal is underpinned by the observation that sequence diversity in short, standardized gene regions (DNA barcodes) enables both the identification of known species and the discovery of [...]
