Project title
Scalable Nanopore DNA Barcoding and Phylogenetic Workflows for High-Throughput Australian Invertebrate Biodiversity Research
Collaborators and funding
- La Trobe University
- Deakin University
- ARC Linkage
- Christmas Island National Parks
Contact(s)
Nick Murphy, La Trobe University. n.murphy@latrobe.edu.au
Project description and aims
This project will develop scalable nanopore sequencing workflows for high-throughput DNA barcoding and phylogenetic analysis of Australian terrestrial invertebrates. The workflows will support the analysis of thousands of specimens for studies of short-range endemism, cryptic biodiversity, and ecological interactions associated with invasive yellow crazy ants, while providing reproducible and user-friendly pipelines that can be adopted by a broader research community.
The project will deliver reproducible and user-friendly pipelines that enable routine analysis by non-specialist researchers on national computational infrastructure.
How is ABLeS supporting this work?
This work is supported through the Production Bioinformatics scheme provided by ABLeS.
Expected outputs enabled by participation in ABLeS
Expected outputs include DNA barcode and phylogenetic sequence datasets for thousands of Australian terrestrial invertebrate specimens, peer-reviewed publications on short-range endemism and invasive species ecology, and reproducible nanopore analysis workflows for high-throughput biodiversity research. Sequence data will be deposited in public repositories such as NCBI GenBank and the Sequence Read Archive (SRA), while associated metadata, workflows, and documentation will be made available through GitHub and appropriate institutional or public data repositories to support reuse by the broader research community.
These details have been provided by project members at project initiation. For more information on the project, please consult the contact(s) or project links above.