Michelle Gaither of UCF has discovered that the world’s largest collection of raw genomic sequences of plants, animals, and fungi is missing data critical to monitor and protect those species. The needed data includes the time and location that the organism was collected.
“A lot of money is pumped into generating these genomic data, yet most are not useful for biodiversity monitoring due to a lack of metadata,” says Gaither. “The lost investment from missing spatiotemporal metadata totals tens of millions of U.S. dollars and this amount will only grow.”
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