From the lack of easy-to-use #bioinformatics tools from the early age of #metabarcoding, we have reached a phase of "a pile of pipelines" 🦋🧬🖥️ a fresh review by many of the developers of this pile -> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

GBIF is seeking eDNA metabarcoding datasets for testing in an experimental data-publishing tool. If you ✅ have DNA metabarcoding data ✅ understand its source and structure ✅ want to extend the reuse and impact of your data email us at [email protected] 👉 discourse.gbif.org/t/invitation-t…

Exiting Update! Seven years ago, we launched a free sequencing service for rare fungal species collected by #CitizenScience. Today, we're thrilled to share the impact of this initiative. Your contributions matter! Check out our new blog post at unite.ut.ee/posts.php?id=2

GlobalFungi Release 5 is online! Our team and collaborators added 27788 samples (blue points on map) from 331 new papers. Especially the coverage of Africa increased greatly (+200%). Search for fungal genera, species or UNITE 9 species hypotheses at globalfungi.com

The final version of our new review on fungal diversity, distribution, and conservation, is now out. We made a revised prediction of 2-3 million species globally… 1/2 @KewMycology @KewScience #fungi #diversity annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.11…

🚨Open call of the barcoding stream of Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) for the wider European research community aimed at researchers interested in contributing to the construction of #DNAbarcode #reference #libraries for species in Europe.🧬 See more info: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2023/11/27/ope…

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity: a comprehensive 6-dataset analysis of drivers of alpha, beta, gamma and phylogenetic diversity of fungi globally by Vladimir Mikryukov and co-workers. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

UNITE presentation at the 6th annual meeting of the eDNA Society held in Fukuoka, Japan. Thank you so much to Yuta Hasebe and Natsuko Kondoh for organizing the session!

We have written a blog about the new development of DNAbarcoder, a tool for eDNA identification. Hopefully, it can be expanded for use with other species as well. Westerdijk Institute Gerard Verkley @AriseBiodivers1 arise-biodiversity.nl/post/dnabarcod…

PhD positions open in my team in Tartu: ut.ee/en/content/phd… 1. Databasing species-level fungal ecological/genomic traits 2. Fungal diversity in European coastlines 3. Niche differentiation in closely related fungal species 4. AI in fungal bioinformatics [email protected]

UNITE v10 reference datasets now available for download! NB! Critical bug fix introduced to the "full UNITE+INSD" dataset from 04.04.2024. Please download the latest version (21.04.2024).

BLAST is a great tool. One of its uses is to double check newly generated sequence data prior to INSDC submission.

Kadri Põldmaa 12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12) talking about the unambiguous communication on described and undescribed fungal species

EUKARYOME 1.9. - a new release available. Special release for long-reads targeting AM fungi (Glomeromycota + Mucoromycotina) and dark taxa (undescribed fungal lineages) with alphanumerical codes: eukaryome.org #IMC12 #AMF #fungi

It's great to see UNITE mentioned as a useful platform for cataloguing dark fungi in Robert Lücking's keynote talk 12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12)

Meet our team! 👋 Our #Biodiversity #Genomics #Europe All Hands Meeting in Thessaloniki (Greece) was a great success! We look forward to the next steps. Special thanks to our host Α.Π.Θ.! 🇬🇷 Thank you all and until next time! 🧬 European Research Executive Agency

Congratulations to Maarja!

20 years of bibliometric data illustrates a lack of concordance between journal impact factor and fungal species discovery in systematic mycology pensoft.altmetric.com/details/170890…

Should we rely on journal impact factors in #systematics and #taxonomy? 🤔 Mycologist Henrik Nilsson explores this question in a Pensoft guest blog post: 🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2024/11/22/sho…