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Barcoding Life: Towards a DNA-Based Identification System for Animals |
| This web site describes work related to the creation of a DNA-based identification system for animals-at-large based on the analysis of a single mitochondrial gene- cytochrome c oxidase I (COI). This site provides a brief rationale for DNA barcoding and background information on COI. It summarizes the results of past studies that have employed COI to investigate taxon diversity and includes a searchable database of all papers on this gene. Its final element, COI-Bank, incorporates all publicly available information on a core region of this gene. COI-Bank is intended as the pilot version of a database that might serve as the basis for a Global Bioidentification System for animals. As such, we invite both the submission of new data and the critical evaluation of its functionality. |