Pre-Conference Training

Participants in the Adelaide Barcode Conference will have the option of attending two days of Pre-Conference Training events. The training events have been designed for beginners and early users, and for technicians in laboratories that are expanding their barcoding operations.

Registration for the training events is now closed.

Monday, 28 November: Informatics

Course Materials:

The informatics training workshop sessions were designed with both beginner and advanced users in mind. The morning session will cover introductory level topics to help new users get started on BOLD and other barcode databases. Presenters will showcase new features and functionality available in BOLD 3.0 and explore connectivity to partners such as GenBank, the Barcode Of Life Data Portal, Geneious, Specify and more. The afternoon will be organized into domain-specific sessions to cover workflows designed for ecological studies, regulatory use, regional inventories, iBOL campaigns, student training and more.

For more information about this workshop please contact info@boldsystems.org.

A significant portion of the workshop will be devoted to an overview of BOLD 3.0 features and use cases on BOLD. The morning session will cover introductory level topics to help new users get started on BOLD, showcase new features and functionality available in BOLD 3.0 and demonstrate workflows for standard uses. Speakers from BOLD and other institutions will present on the following:

  • Introduction to BOLD 3.0
  • Data life cycle
  • Using the system
  • Data sharing and publication
  • BARCODE Data Standard including animals, plants & fungi
  • Plant barcoding workflows

The afternoon will be organized into domain-specific sessions that cover workflows designed for various domains, including ecological studies, regulatory projects, and student training initiatives from the point of view of experts in these areas. Finally a lightning talk session will explore connectivity from BOLD to partners such as GenBank.These talks will be presented by the partner organizations, with a short question and answer period following each.

 

Tuesday, 29 November: Lab Procedures

Course Documents

This short course, organized by CBOL's Leading Labs Network, will focus on laboratory procedures and DNA barcoding methods. The course will cover different aspects of barcode-related activities, including an introduction to barcoding and its pipeline, information about the acquisition and handling of specimens and tissue samples and a brief description of laboratory methods and information management. The training will cover the ways in which these activities are carried out in small, medium, and high throughput facilities, and it will also include a series of talks and a round table about how this methodology is implemented in the major groups of eukaryotes and which particular considerations are necessary in each of them.

The course is designed specifically for researchers and students who are starting to work on barcoding or are planning to do so in the near future. The course will also be beneficial for members of institutions that are expanding their research on barcoding (for example to groups of organisms with which they haven't worked before) or are increasing the scale at which they are generating DNA barcodes.

Agenda (as of 22 August)
  • Module I: Introduction to Barcoding and its pipeline
    • Brief introduction to barcoding and the current goals and campaigns/working groups
    • The Barcoding Pipeline
    • Barcode Data Standard compliance
  • Module II: Acquisition and Handling of specimens and tissue samples
    • Pros and cons of collecting specimens for barcoding vs. sampling existing collections
    • Museum harvesting
    • Field collection
    • Front-end processing
  • Module III: Laboratory methods and information management for small, medium and large-scale facilities.
    • DNA Extraction
    • PCR Amplification
    • Information management and data quality
  • Module IV: Taxon-specific aspects of the barcoding pipeline
    • Short talks about taxon-specific key elements to take into consideration
    • Round table question and answer session and discussions about taxon-specific aspects of the pipeline