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The Barcode Bulletin is the quarterly on-line newsletter of the International Barcode of Life project (iBOL). Send contributions, comments, suggestions, corrections to bulletin@ibol.org and click here to receive email notifications about upcoming editions.
Barcode Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 1 – March 2012
CONTENTS
- Special Edition -
BARCODING EUROPE
- Major expansion planned for German node
- FinBOL gets off to a fast start
- iBOL membership beckons for Switzerland
- FREDIE building freshwater data portal
- ECBOL 3 congress set for Brussels
- iBOL partner makes fruit fly discovery
. . . and the world
FDA using barcoding to spot fish fraud
Nine labs now testing fillets for mislabelling
Pakistan to form barcode focal point
Two hundred attend symposium in Faisalbad
Dan Janzen honoured with BBVA Foundation award
Recognition for groundbreaking work in tropical ecology
Adelaide conference breaks all records
Global barcoding community gathers in South Australia
New barcoding app for iPhone
Barcoding Assitant helps to compile specimen metadata
iBOL advisor wins Russian “megagrant”
Stephen O’Brien leaves NCI after 25 years
Barcoding Life report documents a year of progress
Discoveries, applications and data acquisition
Barcode Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 3 – October 2011
CONTENTS
Out of the lab and into the field
California group is testing the waters for environmental barcoding
South African barcoders head for the wetlands
iSimangaliso Wetland Park was the destination for the 2011 Toyota Enviro Outreach expedition.
Herps come in from the cold
Herpetologists now have their own barcoding campaign
Beauty on the front porch
How a love of moths turned an oyster farmer into a barcoder
What’s in your teabag
Three high school students use barcodes to find the answer
PLoS One launches Mexico City Collection
Proceedings of the Third International Barcode of Life Conference
African partnership initiative launched
Bringing together biodiversity researchers and potential users of DNA barcoding
Essay: Navigating around hazards to barcoding, 2011
iBOL Chair Jesse Ausubel on how to avoid the speed bumps on the road to 5 million barcodes
Opinion: Does the species count really matter?
Eminent biologists beg to differ on the significance of the new total species estimate
Research Roundup
A selection of recent scientific publications on DNA barcoding
Barcode Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 2 – July 2011
CONTENTS
Tracking the tsetse fly with DNA
Barcoders are hot on the trail of the notorious disease vector.
Boom time for barcoding
Record numbers of researchers vie for a spot in Adelaide.
Norway’s taxonomy initiative yields impressive results
Government-funded project boosts barcoding and species discovery.
Collecting fishes in remote rural Malawi
A crowd gathers to see iBOL-IDRC postdoc in action.
Pakistan project generates 5K barcodes in 1st year
More than 1,300 important insect species are covered.
NSF award to involve students in iBOL
Young barcoders explore the kelp beds of northern California.
Adelaide spotlight on biosecurity
How barcoding can protect agriculture, human health.
GBIF welcomes iBOL as new member
Putting the genomics into the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
The Barcode Blog: Clams open up
The largest ever DNA barcode analysis of marine bivalves finds a big role for barcodes in clam identification.
Research Roundup
Read some recent publications on DNA barcoding.
Barcode Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 1 – April 2011
CONTENTS: Preparations for conference in Adelaide | iBOL Director honoured | Barcoding in China shifts into high gear | Barcode session at Pacific Science Congress | School’s in for student barcoders | ACG fieldwork unlocks secrets of cryptic species | New specimen shipping rules welcomed | Barcodes sniff out phony olive oil
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Barcode Bulletin Vol. 1, No. 4 – December 2010
CONTENTS: SSC Meeting report | $17M funding boost | New iBOL Directors | CBD Agreement | Barcoding blitz in Australia | New centre in Aurangabad | BOLD architect honoured | North Sea project | iBOL launch celebrated | Barcodes solve squid riddle | New agreement on ABS | A marathon barcode cycle
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Barcode Bulletin Vol. 1, No. 3 – September 2010
CONTENTS: Countdown to launch | ECBOL 2 report | PLoS marine barcoding collection | 4th International Conference preview | South African barcode safari | Buenos Aires workshop | HealthBOL report | GigaPan and barcoding | Plant pest meeting | Mountain forest inventory
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Barcode Bulletin Vol. 1, No. 2 – June 2010
CONTENTS: Big funding boost | iBOL data release | BOLD developer honoured | iBOL appoints Executive Director | New scientific hub | Barcode funding for developing countries | PolarBOL report | Pakistan insect project | Major progress in Argentina | Kenya gets boost | Bat diet riddle solved | DNA found in mescal | Moorea Biocode project | Statistical oddity in barcode data | Michelle van der Bank profile
Barcode Bulletin Vol. 1, No. 1 – March 2010
CONTENTS: Mexico City conferenced report | Moth fans go BOLD | Barcoding New York | New online community | ECBOL 2 preview | Barcoding news from India | MexBOL history | Barcoding Fauna Bavarica | Norwegians sign on | Barcoding Churchill | The art of barcoding | Meet the iBOL Board
