You still have to get near enough to steal a feather I guess?
On 19/02/2008, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> In today's Sydney Morning Herald there is an interesting item headed
> "Tassie tiger or fox? Swipe its barcode and just end the argument"
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/tassie-tiger-or-fox-swipe-its-
> barcode-and-just-end-the-argument/2008/02/18/1203190740554.html
> It is about an international project called the "International
> Barcode for Life Project" the aim of producing a hand-held device
> that can quickly read a species DNA and provide an ID in a few
> minutes. According to the article there have already been 300 species
> of Australian birds coded for the database as well as 2000 species of
> Butterflies and moths and 700 species of fish from Australia. The
> first stage of the project aims to develop a library of %00,00 species.
>
> Sounds like exciting stuff. I would be interested to hear comments
> from any genome jockeys ot there on the likely-hood of success.
> Particularly as the NSW Government has coughed to the tune of AUD 1.2
> Meg.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
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