Building shared capacity at the European level

Barcodes and Genomes

Establishing the foundations for large scale production of biodiversity genomics data is one of BGE’s main goals.

BGE is generating a wealth of reference data from species collections and environmental samples across Europe. These data include DNA barcodes and metabarcoding diversity profiles, genome sequences and genome variability data, and all of the associated metadata. This digital sequence information is being uploaded to open access databases: BOLD for barcodes and ENA for genomes. Explore these and other related data resources using the table below.