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May 2012 Blog Posts (2)

New Tool to design Mini-barcodes in R

Hi everyone,

Our paper on sliding window analyses for optimal selection of mini-barcodes has been published in PLoS One. You can download it from here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038215

This is particularly useful to study degraded or ancient DNA or if you do next generation sequencing. The method is based on the R package…

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Added by Stephane Boyer on May 31, 2012 at 5:09am — No Comments

Wolbachia and DNA Barcoding Insects

A paper that myself and 28 co-authors have been working on for the past several years, “Wolbachia and DNA Barcoding Insects: Patterns, Potential, and Problems” came out late last week in PLoSONE (7(5): e36514). In it, we examine the extent to which COI sequences from Wolbachia can be detected in routine insect DNA barcoding. We further assessed the impact of Wolbachia upon…

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Added by M. Alex Smith on May 9, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments