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Genomic Connection #6 – The code of life: the world of bioinformatics

October 31, 2025

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    Connections #8: Bioinformatics: reassembling the book of life

    The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) and the European node of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL Europe), two international communities of scientists brought together under the Biodiversity Genomics Europe Project, are joining forces for “Connections,” a series of blog...

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    UK BIOSCAN Taxonomython

    Last week, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Natural History Museum of London co-organised a three-day Taxonomython. Hosted at the NHM, the Taxonomython focused on the identification of  critical specimens from the Wellcome Sanger Institute. World-class taxonomic experts worked on...

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    Highlights of Community Meeting September 2025

    Here we come with highlights and references of what we discussed during the September edition of our Community Meeting. Carolina Corrales (LIB) presented the recently published paper "The Role of Community Science in DNA-Based Biodiversity Monitoring", including the differentiation between Contributory...

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    France funds major biodiversity programme

    The government of France has funded Dynabiod, an unprecedented scientific programme dedicated to terrestrial biodiversity with a lifespan of 8 years, with 45 million €. Led by Wilfried Thuiller at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and by...

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    Genomic Connection #5 – Communicating the Science Behind Biodiversity Genomics

    In the fifth episode of Genomic Connections, Kasia Fantoni and Christian De Guttry are joined by Ela Sari, Science Communications Advisor at ⁠Naturalis Biodiversity Center ⁠(the Netherlands) and Luísa Marins, ERGA Scientific Communication and Dissemination Coordinator based at the ⁠Leibniz...

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    Connections #7: Citizen science, allies, definitions, and common misconceptions

    The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) and the European node of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL Europe), two international communities of scientists brought together under the Biodiversity Genomics Europe Project, are joining forces for “Connections,” a series of blog...

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