From barcodes to genomes: extending the concept of DNA barcoding.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Coissac, Eric Hollingsworth, Peter M. Lavergne, Sébastien Taberlet, Pierre
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	DNA barcoding has had a major impact on biodiversity science. The elegant simplicity of establishing massive scale databases for a few barcode loci is continuing to change our understanding of species diversity patterns, and continues to enhance human abilities to distinguish among species. Capitalizing on the developments of next generation sequencing technologies and decreasing costs of genome sequencing, there is now the opportunity for the DNA barcoding concept to be extended to new kinds of genomic data. We illustrate the benefits and capacity to do this, and also note the constraints and barriers to overcome before it is truly scalable. We advocate a twin track approach: (i) continuation and acceleration of global efforts to build the DNA barcode reference library of life on earth using standard DNA barcodes and (ii) active development and application of extended DNA barcodes using genome skimming to augment the standard barcoding approach.
Starting Page	6386
Ending Page	6392
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://seb.lavergne.free.fr/pdf/Coissac_2016_MolEcol.pdf
PubMed reference number	26821259v1
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13549
DOI	10.1111/mec.13549
Journal	Molecular ecology
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	7
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Bar Codes Genome Massively-Parallel Sequencing benefit
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article