Open Meeting on the
Scientific Aspects of DNA Barcoding
National Museum of Natural History

May 25, 2004
Washington , D.C.

A Consortium of major natural history museums and herbaria is launching the Barcode of Life Initiative, an emerging collaborative effort to promote a process enabling the rapid and inexpensive identification of the estimated 10 million species of Earth's fauna and flora. The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, host of the Secretariat for the Consortium, held this organizational meeting of the Barcode of Life Consortium on May 24, 2004.

Meeting Minutes

Meeting Participants

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