Barcode of Life

A couple of days ago, I was in a meeting with Professor Guichard, my supervisor for my summer research project in non-linear dynamics of metacommunities. During the meeting, we went off on a tangent about his upcoming trip to Barbados to teach a course about tropical ecology when he mentioned the Barcode of Life (BOLD) initiative. The idea behind this project is to identify and discover the diversity of species in the world by using various DNA fingerprinting techniques. Guichard will be attempting to sequence the certain parts of sea grass genomes in order to determine their capability to disperse... which is pretty cool, though I greatly dislike PCR... so boring. Anyways, check out the website.