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Community Meeting November 2025
The last edition of our Community Meeting took place on Monday, 24 November. Niels Raes (Naturalis Biodiversity Centre) and Urmas Kõljalg (University of Tartu) presented Biodiversity Meets Data (BMD), an EU-funded project aiming to create a centralised Single Access Point (SAP) for natural...
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Genomic Connection #6 – The code of life: the world of bioinformatics
In the sixth episode of Genomic Connections, Kasia and Christian talk with Rutger Vos and Diego de Panis about their experiences in bioinformatics and the central role this discipline plays in transforming vast amounts of data into biological insights. Rutger...
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iBOL 2026 in Bangkok
The 10th International Barcode of Life Conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 2–6 November 2026. More information will come soon! "Nature walk, Flowers" by John Mukiibi Elijah on Unsplash.
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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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