DNA Barcode Data Analysis Initiative: Tools for a New Generation of Biodiversity Data Workshops

该奖项支持6名来自美国研究机构的研究生和博士后参加两场关于DNA条形码的研讨会，分别于2006年7月6日至8日在法国巴黎和2007年2月在东南亚举行。DNA条形码是从基因组中标准化位置提取的短基因序列。DNA条形码正在发展成为物种鉴定的全球标准。一个国际联盟已经启动了一些工作组，这些工作组正在解决DNA条形码项目以及其他分类学、系统和进化生物学研究人员面临的科学和技术障碍。其中之一是数据分析工作组，成员包括计算机科学家、统计学家、分类学家和群体遗传学家，他们正在为DNA条形码数据开发新一代分析协议和技术。欧洲科学基金会已经为欧洲参与该项目提供了支持，生命条形码联盟也已承诺提供共同资金。该项目有潜力为分类界和DNA条形码的其他用户提供工具和技术，他们将需要使用条形码数据和其他分子标记进行物种水平的鉴定。

This award supports 6 graduate students and postdocs from US institutions to attend two workshops about DNA Barcodes to be held in Paris, France July 6-8, 2006 and in February 2007 in Southeast Asia. DNA barcodes are short gene sequences taken from standardized positions in the genome. DNA barcodes are being developed as a global standard for species identification. An international consortium has launched a number of Working Groups that are addressing scientific and technical obstacles faced by DNA barcoding projects as well as other researchers in taxonomy and systematic and evolutionary biology. One of them, the Data Analysis Working Group, includes computer scientists, statisticians, taxonomists and population geneticists who are developing a new generation of analytical protocols and techniques for DNA barcode data. Support for European participation in this project by the European Science Foundation has already been secured, and co-funding from the Consortium for the Barcode of Life has also been committed. This project has the potential to provide the taxonomic community and other users of DNA barcode with the tools and techniques they will need to use barcode data and other molecular markers for species-level identification.