Taxonomic and genomic coverage

In the long term, we aim to host data from all macroscopic multicellular species of Australian animals, plants and other key groups represented in Australia’s biological collections. We have kicked off this ambitious effort through an initial series of targeted, externally funded campaigns. Each campaign focuses on specific taxonomic groups, biogeographic regions or use cases. In addition to these planned efforts, we also accept opportunistic contributions from researchers whose data meet our inclusion criteria. Our current campaigns include marine vertebrates, marine invertebrates, macroalgae, and seagrasses, priority plant and aquatic pests and others.

The NBDL will host whole annotated mitochondrial genomes, whole plastid genomes, and nuclear ribosomal sequences. These can be downloaded as either whole genomes or individual gene regions (e.g. COI, NADH2).