Taxonomics Methods Using DNA

Spouge博士被邀请为2009年爱丁堡会议“为植物选择条形码位点”分析数据，这是生命条形码联盟内植物工作组的一次会议。后来，Spouge博士在2011年为阿姆斯特丹的真菌条形码工作组进行了类似的数据分析。 在与Martin博士的合作中，他使用DNA条形码分析了东南亚和西班牙的真菌分类。他的分析的实现在用户友好的程序中公开，更新后允许条形码研究人员在他们自己的数据上复制Spouge博士的分析。马丁博士积极测试网络工具。这项合作还产生了用于客观比较分类学分类方法的统计方法，特别是基因库注释和专家分类。马丁博士正在将这些方法和工具应用于真菌枝孢属。

The project started when Dr. Spouge was invited to analyze data for the 2009 Edinburgh Conference "Selecting Barcode Loci for Plants", a meeting of the Plant Working Group within the Consortium for the Barcode of Life. Later, Dr. Spouge performed a similar data analysis for the Fungal Barcode Working Group in Amsterdam in 2011. In collaboration with Dr. Martin, he has used DNA barcodes to analyze fungal taxonomy in South-East Asia and Spain. Implementations of his analysis are publicly available in user-friendly programs, updated to permit barcode researchers to replicate Dr Spouge's analyses on their own data. Dr Martin has actively tested the web tools. The collaboration is also producing statistical methods for the objective comparison of methods of taxonomic classification, notably GenBank annotation and expert classification. Dr Martin is applying the methods and tools in the fungal Genus Ramaria.