Illuminate
BiodiversityTo save our living planet
iBOL’s mission
illuminate biodiversity by developing globally accessible, dna-based systems for the discovery and identification of all multicellular life
Discover how the ability to
read biodiversity will impact you
Explore the simple way that
we can read life on our planet
Imagine a world with biodiversity
identification at your fingertips
Our Plans
iBOL will establish an earth observation system that will reveal species, including their dynamics and interactions.
Tracking ecosystems and revealing symbiomes – distinct fungal, plant, and animal species associated with host organisms – before the middle of this century by completing three research program:
BARCODE 500K
BIOSCAN
PLANETARY BIODIVERSITY MISSION
BIOSCAN
The 2nd iBOL PROGRAM
2019 – 2026
BIOSCAN will allow us to forecast changes in biodiversity in response to anthropogenic drivers as well as deepen our understanding of species interactions by probing the
Latest News & Events
NorBOL’s biodiversity research infrastructure receives NOK 2 million
Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre has announced NOK 2 million in new funding to support the Norwegian Barcode of Life.
Registration open for online metabarcoding course
This course covers next-generation sequencing, environmental DNA (eDNA), metabarcoding analytics as well as applications and recent research
Finnish workshop:DNA based species identification
University of Oulu, Finland hosts DNA barcoding workshop between December 16-20, 2019
About us
The International Barcode of Life consortium is a research alliance of nations
undertaking the largest biodiversity science initiative:
