INVEMAR DNA Management Training

21-25 July, 2026

Course Schedule

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DNA Data Management Slide Decks

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  1. What is Environmental DNA?
    • Introduction to eDNA methods and what we can do with it
  2. What information is important at each step of an eDNA workflow?
    • Overview of the information that should be captured when managing DNA datasets
  3. FAIR Data & Biodiversity Standards
    • Background information on what FAIR data is and a brief overview of Darwin Core and Essential Ocean Variables
  4. Darwin Core and DNA-Derived Data
    • Overview of DNA data types and how DNA data fits into Darwin Core
  5. eDNA Data Management History (YouTube recording)
  6. Mapping molecular data to Darwin Core
    • How to record the important data and metadata in Darwin Core and the DNA-derived extension
  7. Quality Control
  8. Applications of eDNA for biodiversity monitoring
  9. Ongoing data standardisation intitiatives (OBON) (YouTube recording)
  10. Reference databases, taxonomic assignment and validation
  11. Publishing & IPT
    • How to publish data using the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) software
  12. Accessing OBIS (DNA) Data
    • En español
    • How to access data from OBIS, including DNA data

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