several years ago, the @ebpgenome.bsky.social sample collection and processing subcommittee ran a survey to understand more about people's successes and failures with HMW DNA extractions across the tree of life -- we planned to publish the results of this survey alongside the randomly drawn ...

if you are trying to get HMW DNA out of any species, have a look at the stellar progress from Sanger Tree of Life core lab who have now extracted DNA from 1000s of species. Paper showcasing things learned along the way now up on bioRxiv at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding Wrapped presented at DTOL celebration today — a lot of specimens and a lot of barcodes!!

and as a perk, we got to see Darwin’s pet tortoise and the pickled grey squirrel that is the specimen used for the Darwin Tree of Life Sciurus carolinensis genome