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MycoMap BC Project: If you are in BC, you can have fungi and slime mould DNA sequenced for free. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 9 months ago by magpie@mander.xyz to c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/38777572

MycoMap BC (through Mycota) will run for at least 12 months, you can submit just about any fungus or slime mould. There is no limit on the number of samples you can send in. You can send anything in as long as it was collected in 2025. This is a really great opportunity for northern BC especially because we are very underrepresented for how large our part of the province is!

Lichens are excluded as I believe you need to isolate each organism before testing and that is a totally different work flow.

You can read more here: MycoMap BC

iNat Project

Launch video

I'm not affiliated with this project, just wanted to share with you folks because I think a lot of the promotion for it was done on the facebook mushroom forums and not everyone uses those.

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[–] ellisk@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looks like it's only ITS sequencing ("barcoding") which is really old/cheap technology compared to modern whole genome sequencing (PacBio + HiC, etc). It's a very limited view of the genome, but still useful for broad phylogenetic analysis though, and definitely worthwhile since it'll be a while before we have a meaningful fraction of fungal species fully sequenced. I suspect there isn't much grant money out there for fungal diversity...

[–] magpie@mander.xyz 0 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I don't know if I've seen anything other than barcoding for these types of projects. It's better than nothing, though, which is sort of what we have at the moment, especially for northern regions.

[–] magpie@mander.xyz 0 points 9 months ago

This is a citizen science project, anyone can participate so long as you are in BC! You do need to have a (free) iNaturalist account to join the project and submit samples, though.