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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...

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

In the third episode of Genomic Connections, Christian and Kasia chat with Joana Pauperio, Biodiversity Project Manager at the European Nucleotide Archive, in the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). They discuss the concept of “metadata,” why it is crucial to ensure...