BOLD Systems
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is an online workbench that aids collection, management, analysis, and use of DNA barcodes. See More
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Gary W Saunders's Groups
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BOLD Systems
79 members
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Marine Barcoding
64 members
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Polar Life
22 members
Gary W Saunders's Page
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Gary W Saunders replied to Dhivya's discussion 'Troubles in DNA Isolation ??? Don't hesitate to post ur comments and discussions :)'
Here you are. I hope that it helps.
Gary W Saunders replied to Dhivya's discussion 'Troubles in DNA Isolation ??? Don't hesitate to post ur comments and discussions :)'
You should chat with the folks at Guelph (especially Natalia Ivanova). We use salts as indicated previously to deal with the polysaccharides, but she got us using acetone to clean up the polyphenolics, which saved us a lot of time and money on…
iBOL Scientific Steering Committee
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Gary W Saunders replied to Dhivya's discussion 'Troubles in DNA Isolation ??? Don't hesitate to post ur comments and discussions :)'
What lineage are you working on? In the algal world we have significant challenges owing to polysaccharides co-extracting with the DNA. In our lab we have found that the best solution is to add potassium acetate to red algal extraction buffers…
Gary W Saunders replied to Ameka, Gabriel's discussion 'DNA barcode of marine macro-algae'
A recent issue of Cryptogamie Algologie has two papers dealing with green algal barcoding. The marker we are advocating for Chlorophyta is tufA. The data in support of this choice, primers, etc., are in the first paper on greens in that issue. The…
Profile Information
- Institution/Organization
- University of New Brunswick
- Title/Position
- Researcher/Faculty member
- Website
- http://www.unb.ca/cemar
- I’m involved in, or am interested in the following barcoding initiatives
- Marine Barcode of Life (MarBOL)
- I’m involved in or interested in the following iBOL Working Groups
- WG1.8 Marine Bio-Surveillance, WG1.10 Polar Life
- Keywords about my barcoding projects (separate each choice with a comma)
- Algae, protist, environmental sample, polar
- I’m involved in the following aspects of barcoding:
- Fieldwork/specimen collecting, Museum work/specimen curation, Labwork/generating barcode sequences, Management of barcode data, Analysis of barcode data, Using barcode data in taxonomy/systematic biology, Using barcode data for other applications, Organizing/managing barcoding projects
- Current Project(s)
- ALGA - Algal Life Global Audit
BoFI - Bay of Fundy Biodiversity Inventory
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- At 12:54pm on December 2, 2009,
Kris Jett said… - Hello and welcome!
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