Microbial consortia mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane with sulfate are
composed of methanotrophic Archaea (ANME) and Bacteria related to sulfate‐reducing …

Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity,
Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine microbial …

Biodiversity research brings together the many facets of biological environmental research.
Its data management is characterized by integration and is particularly challenging due to the …

Rapid changes of the biosphere observed in recent years are caused by both small and
large scale drivers, like shifts in temperature, transformations in land-use, or changes in the …

Planctomycetes are widely distributed in marine environments, where they supposedly play
a role in carbon recycling. To deepen our understanding about the ecology of this sparsely …

While powerful and user-friendly software suites exist for phylogenetics, and an impressive
cybertaxomic infrastructure of online species databases has been set up in the past two …

Genomic samples of non-model organisms are becoming increasingly important in a broad
range of studies from developmental biology, biodiversity analyses, to conservation. …

Natural history collections are leading successful large-scale projects of specimen digitization
(images, metadata, DNA barcodes), thereby transforming taxonomy into a big data science…

Background Current sequencing technologies give access to sequence information for
genomes and metagenomes at a tremendous speed. Subsequent data processing is mainly …

The application of mobile ad hoc networks to cattle monitoring has the potential to increase
the profitability of cattle production and positively impact the everyday live of farm personnel. …