First in Canada - SEQUEL II
Funded by a $650,000 grant by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Sequel II System will play a vital role in iBOL's second global project - BIOSCAN.
Automated high resolution imaging
Digital 4K microphotography supported by our Analytics Unit can generate 1.5 Million high resolution images in a year.
Advanced DNA Sequencing Services
The sequencing facility of the CBG offers the latest in DNA barcoding technology, research, and innovation.
BIOSCAN - the second iBOL Project
The International Barcode of Life Consortium is preparing for its second global project - BIOSCAN.
Informatics – BOLD v4
The Barcode of Life Data System is a global informatics workbench used to share data by over 29,000 users from more than 200 countries.
Collect, Image, Archive
The Analytics and Collections Units of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics maintains a collection of over 5M digitized specimens and over 740K images.
Preserving Global Biodiversity
The sequencing facility of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics has generated a DNA archive containing over 250,000 species.
Supporting Global DNA Barcode Research
The CBG supports the training and development of DNA barcode-related projects and researchers around the globe.
From field to lab to the palm of your hand
Here at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics we take a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to this important field of research.
Bringing Genomics to Biodiversity
Recent News and Publications / From the CBG
The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) is the global leader in the field of DNA barcoding. It occupies a 50,000 ft2 facility on the University of Guelph campus. Its unique research capacity reflects the coupling of one of Canada’s largest genomics platforms with a workforce that includes world-class expertise in biodiversity science, DNA sequencing, and informatics.
The CBG is clearly differentiated from other genomics organizations by the taxonomic scope of its work and by its commitment to genomic minimalism. Instead of characterizing entire genomes, the Centre employs sequence diversity in targeted gene regions to advance understanding of the diversity, distribution, and interactions of multicellular life. The Centre is best known for its role in leading the development of DNA barcoding as a tool for specimen identification and species discovery. In addition, researchers at the CBG are heavily involved in studies that use DNA barcodes for large-scale biomonitoring programs and to probe interactions among species.
Research funding is provided in part by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
Riparian forests mitigate warming and ecological degradation of agricultural headwater streams
Turunen J, Elbrecht V, Steinke D, Aroviita J
Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species
Sharkey MJ, Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, Chapman EG, Smith MA, Dapkey T, Brown A, Ratnasingham S, Naik S, Manjunath R, Perez K, Milton M, Hebert PDN, Shaw SR, Kittel RN, Solis MA, Metz MA, Goldstein PZ, Brown JW, Quicke DLJ, van Achterberg C, Brown BV, Burns JM
A workflow for accurate metabarcoding using nanopore MinION sequencing
Baloğlu B, Chen Z, Elbrecht V, Braukmann TWA, MacDonald S, Steinke D
A SMRT approach for targeted amplicon sequencing of museum specimens (Lepidoptera)—patterns of nucleotide misincorporation
D’Ercole J, Prosser SWJ, Hebert PDN