Scientists will take advantage of the latest technologies to combine DNA and environmental data to improve our understanding of how various organisms, their functions and genes vary in different terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
Scientists will take advantage of the latest technologies to combine DNA and environmental data to improve our understanding of how various organisms, their functions and genes vary in different terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) will analyse DNA sequence data from soil and water samples from hundreds of different ecosystems across the country. They will search for DNA of fungi, microbes such as bacteria, viruses and archaea (which are important in carbon and nitrogen cycling), as well plants and animals.
The identity of species, their locations, habitats, soil type and chemical properties will then be included in a new cloud-based platform that will be open and free for researchers to access.
Read more at: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
