The Urban Barcode Project (UBP) is a science competition spanning the five boroughs of New York City made possible by funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Just as a unique pattern of bars in a universal product code identifies each item for sale in a store, a DNA barcode is a DNA sequence that uniquely identifies each species of living thing. In the project, student research teams use DNA barcoding to explore biodiversity in NYC.
Be careful what species you carry on your feet! Have you ever considered that the one of the most diverse places on earth can be directly under your feet? When we walk, our shoes pick up various seen and ...
Save the Dates: UBP Symposium
Please join us at the UBP Symposium to see the results obtained by all teams participating. Detailed information will be sent to teams in March.
- Poster Sessions I and II will be held at the American Museum of Natural History on the evenings of May 31 and June 1, 2012.
- The UBP Symposium for ten finalist teams will be on June 6, also in the evening at the Museum. The award ceremony will follow project presentations.
- Bioinformatics: We can learn a lot from other species
- "Barcode High", The Scientist
- "Young Sleuths’ Last Target: Sushi. This Time: Tea." NY Times City Room Blog
- "Commercial Teas Highlight Plant DNA Barcode Identification Successes and Obstacles", Scientific Reports
- "A Passion for Nature, and Really Long Lists," NY Times
- The Barcode Blog by Mark Stoeckle, Urban Barcode Project Scientific Advisor
- International Barcode of Life
- Barcode of Life Data Systems
- Barcode of Life
