First look at the "flight" of dragonflies for the @royalsociety summer exhibition "Nurturing nature's innovations" next week. Come visit our stand: https://t.co/WMNLicNXa4 - an @NHM_London and @imperialcollege collaboration.

Our NERC funded project on Antarctic Krill with @NHM_Science starts today! See details here

Our latest study developing a Snakemake framework for the assembly and phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and ribosomal sequences from genome skims of museum collections is now published in @molecology with @NHM_Science https://t.co/HBEGQbXO3D

🚨Job Alert: Are you a bioinformatics geek? familiar with ancient/historical DNA data? Do you want to join Kew Mycology to analyse fungal genomes of very old specimens? check our vacancies! https://t.co/UP9qJhUXZx https://t.co/Qr4imdqfM4 #fungal #genomics #museomics

Excited to share the final chapter of my PhD thesis has been published! 🎉 Country-wide DNA metabarcoding is now a reality, thanks to key advancements. Big thanks to my co-authors and all who supported me! @leeselab @Senckenberg Link:

🚨 EntoSieve: New automated tool for fast, accurate size-sorting of bulk insect samples! Perfect for boosting DNA megabarcoding & metabarcoding projects. 🧬🔬 DIY low-cost device, gentle on specimens and yet efficient 🦋🐞read here: https://t.co/7TAGLYAxsj

Are you attending #iBOL2024? Did you want to learn more about barcoding with nanopores? Register to attend the pre-conference workshop. Space is limited! https://t.co/CW3ZSW9GSK @eZakhar0v @ento_ben @Elza74649502 @CBG_UofG

OPPORTUNITY! We are recruiting an exceptional leader for NHM Collections: Director of Collections: You'll lead a dedicated team, spearhead strategy for the future of collections, drive access and research, and ensure success of our multi-site expansion https://t.co/7TwJsC211d

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Naturalis is hiring two tenure-track researchers. We're looking for experts who want to integrate molecular techniques, imaging, and data science (AI) to advance species recognition and detection. Apply here: https://t.co/qurEZAu1xk. #Biodiversity #metabarcoding

@eggrandio If you want something super simple and reasonably priced, microCLEAN may be worth trying: https://t.co/9CoKTOGakM (I would love to know how it works in terms of chemistry!). Or you could try a cheap magnetic bead cleanup with reagents and magnet rack, possibly cheapest and most

Just updated BOLDigger2: By popular demand 🫡, BOLDigger2 now accepts BOLD credentials as optional arguments for seamless integration into existing bioinformatics pipelines. Update now at https://t.co/ISjrQdXm4g! #boldigger2 #update 💻

🚀 Excited to announce BOLDigger2! 🎉 Top 100 hits, better error handling, pipeline integration, faster downloads, tons of bug fixes, and BIN support. Check it out and feel free to share: https://t.co/ISjrQdXm4g #BOLDigger2 #upscaling @leeselab

How to efficiently implement #ONT for #DNAbarcoding applications? Join our webinar on June 6th to hear useful tips and discuss with experts from the @iBOLEurope community! https://t.co/k6Szjpqzh4

Wow! Those libraries were clearly competing with each other 🤣

We’re sequencing the genomes of 10 endangered species with https://t.co/TxEcgAPWLz live at London Calling! 🦁🦛🐛🐧🦆🐆🦌 Thanks to @NHM_London and @rzss for making this possible and helping to generate useful genomic data to support conservation efforts! #nanoporeconf

For even more individual voucher specimens on a MinION (100k!!) see this great paper by @iBOLConsortium

With >45,000 individual specimen barcodes generated in a single MinION run, sequencing is no longer the hard / expensive part of doing DNA based biomonitoring!

The amplicon pools were then prepared for @nanopore sequencing @NHM_London using the LSK114 kit with native barcoding (ie. another index per pool added).

The samples were shipped to @SangerToL and non-destructively DNA extracted by @marakat’s team and @sangerinstitute Scientific Operations who then ran 92,160 PCRs (the protocol is a two step PCR carried out in 384-well plates).

These barcodes are from over 45,000 arthropod specimens held in 480 96-well plates, where each well contains a single specimen collected using Malaise traps by the wonderful partners participating in the @BIOSCAN_UK project led out of @SangerToL and @marakat’s group

Very exciting that the first live run of the MinION Mk1D device at #nanoporeconf has a huge and biodiverse amplicon pool, as this technology will facilitate much easier global access to high throughput biodiversity discovery and monitoring with DNA barcodes.