Barcoding P.A.T.H.S.: A new database for Plant & Algal Type & Historical Specimens

Our group has begun making the sequences of type and historical material produced during our research available to everyone on a public database, called “Barcoding P.A.T.H.S.” (Plant & Algal Type & Historical Specimens; www.barcoding-paths.it). It will be a library of reference sequences, easy to update, and against which putative new species or ther plant material can be compared. As the acronym P.A.T.H.S suggests, the biological material that is reported in the project comprises water and land plants and algae, interpreted sensu lato to include not only microalgae and seaweeds, but also cyanobacteria. Moreover, the initiative focuses only on reference specimens and includes type specimens and historical material.