Transcript Progress since the February 2005 London DNA Barcode of

Progress since the
February 2005
London DNA Barcode of
Life Conference
Scott Miller, Chair
Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Smithsonian Institution
CBOL’s History
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2003: First barcoding publications
2003: Sloan Fdn supports Banbury workshops
2004: Sloan 2-year inaugural CBOL grant
2004: Secretariat opens at Smithsonian
2005: International conference London
2006: Sloan 2-year renewal grant
• Now an international affiliation of:
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Natural history museums, biodiversity organizations
Users: e.g., government agencies
Private sector biotech companies, database providers
First International Barcode of Life
Conference, NHM London
• 240 participants from 44 countries
• 38 CBOL Member Organizations
• Announced plans for All-Fish and All-Birds
initiatives
• 30,000 barcode records in BOLD from ~10,000
species
• First evidence of effectiveness of barcoding for
identification
Growth of CBOL
• Executive Committee from 4 continents
• Scientific Advisory Board from 13 countries
• 159 Member Organizations from 50 countries
• Outreach meetings to Africa, South/Central
America, Asia
• Now 54 Member Organizations from 23 LDCs
• Network of 16 “Leading Labs”
• Strong partnerships with GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ,
GBIF, EOL
CBOL’s Mission:
Promoting DNA Barcoding
as a Global Standard
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Developing/raising community standards
Barcode projects to populate database
Global participation and coordination
Acceptance by taxonomic community
Coordination with other fields of science
Adoption by regulatory agencies
Product development by private companies
CBOL Member Organizations: 2007
• 150+ Member organizations, 50 countries
• 50+ Member organizations from 20+ developing countries
CBOL Structure
Member Organizations
Secretariat
Office
Working
Groups
Executive
Committee
Scientific Advisory
Board
Growth of BOLD, Barcode Data
• Now ~300,000 BOLD records from 31,000
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species
FISH-BOL has barcoded 14% of species
ABBI has completed North American birds
Tephritids and Mosquitos underway
BARCODE data standards adopted
Now thousands of fully compliant records
Biodiversity Informatics:
Fragmented, Unconnected
Voucher
Specimen
Type specimens
Varied species concepts:
- BSC (hard to apply)
- Typology
- Genetic lineages
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Journal
Publication
Species
Name
DNA Barcodes:
A Key Variable for Biodiversity Informatics
Voucher
Specimen
Museum
databases of
associated data
Databases of species
occurrences and
distribution
Barcode
Sequence
Journal
Publication
Species
Name
Authority files
of taxonomic
names
BARCODE Records in GenBank
Specimen
Metadata
Georeference
Habitat
Character sets
Images
Behavior
Other genes
Other
Databases
Phylogenetic
Pop’n Genetics
Ecological
Voucher
Specimen
Barcode
Sequence
Trace files
Primers
Literature
(link to content or
citation)
Species
Name
Indices
- Catalogue of Life
- GBIF/ECAT
Nomenclators
- Zoo Record
- IPNI
- NameBank
Publication links
- New species
Databases
- Provisional sp.
Links to Taxonomic Literature
• London meeting on electronic access to
taxonomic literature, 2005
• Catalyzed Biodiversity Heritage Library
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
• Proactive steps with PubMed to add taxonomic
journals to online abstracts
• Aggressive negotiation with publishers of
barcoding papers
• Involvement in Encyclopedia of Life
Adoption by Regulators
International
• FISH-BOL and fish regulatory agencies
 CBOL workshop in Taipei, September 2007
• FAO and International Plant Protection Convention
 Proposal for Diagnostic Protocols for fruit flies
• CITES, National Agencies, Conservation NGOs
 International Steering Committee, identifying pilot projects
National examples
• US Federal Aviation Administration – Birds
• US Environmental Protection Agency – Aquatic
insects
• US Department of Agriculture – Fruit flies
Preview of the Third International
Barcode Conference (2009)
• 1 million barcode records
• 100,000 species
• Identifying unknowns in 30 minutes for less than US$1
• Barcoding is a validated lab procedure
• Port inspectors starting to test unknowns with barcodes in
several countries
• Portable sequencing ?
• Completion of the first local barcode biotic inventory