[Taxacom] Mass Sequencing

[B.J.Tindall]

Microbiologist call this "metagenomics" or even environmental 
genomics - I think they like to avoid the eukaryotes - but all you 
have to do is search in google. This is the reason why GemBank/EMBL 
is being flooded with sequences.
The next project on the cards is to obtain the full genome sequences 
of all prokaryote type strains.
Brian

At 05:31 22.02.07, Fabian Haas wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I was just in a discussion on the merits about DNA Barcoding and one
>thing that came to my mind was following. Often it is said that
>barcoding would enable an quick analyses of a ecosystem or biota, well,
>or smaller bits and peices of biodiversity.
>
>Well did anybody actually try mass sequencing of let's say a square
>meter of soil, or so? Or all the insects on a tree or a birds nest?
>Would be happy to have a reference of this.
>
>or do we still lack the databases of barcode to compare the resulting
>sequences with?
>
>Best
>Fabian
>
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