Lead Partner: Georgios Kotoulas - Ελληνικό Κέντρο Θαλασσίων Ερευνώ / Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)

Joint Research Activity 1 (JRA1) will foster the application of genomics technologies at Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) sites. Research encompasses populating and verifying databases of taxonomic reference barcodes, harmonisation of metabarcoding standard operating procedures (SOPs) across the consortium so that the resulting data can be compared across the partnership, and inter-calibration of classical biodiversity data and genomics data (metabarcoding, meta-transcriptomics, etc.). The final objective will be the establishment of a distributed Genomics Observatory across the partnership and beyond of which the data are available for virtual access (VA).