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The exponential growth of data on BOLD can make it challenging for experts and end-users to curate reference libraries. To address this challenge, partners of the Biodiversity Genomic Europe (BGE) project developed an automated pipeline and a manual curation tool....

The UK BIOSCAN team is organising a "Taxonomython," a collaborative workshop aimed at enhancing species identification within the UK BIOSCAN dataset. It will take place at the Natural History Museum of London on 23-25 September, and the organisers invite dipterists...

Last Monday, we held our final Community Meeting of the summer, and here we come with highlights and references of what we discussed. Ben Price (NHMUK) and Stephan Kuehbandner (SNSB) presented the reference library curation tool developed within the BGE...

In the fourth episode of Genomic Connections, Kasia Fantoni and Christian De Guttry are joined by Amber Hartman Scholz, microbiologist and Head of the Science Policy & Internationalisation Department at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ in Braunschweig, Germany. They dive into...

The Bulgarian Barcode of Life (BgBOL),  in collaboration with the Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE), organised the first BgBOL “Practical Course on DNA Barcoding and Sequencing.” The training took place on 7–9 July 2025, at the Institute of Plant Physiology and...