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iBOL will assemble a formidable array of nations, researchers and private sector partners to gather sequence records and
advance barcode technologies. Its founding membership has been structured by the realization that iBOL's research goals
can only be achieved through an alliance between nations
with high biodiversity and those with the infrastructure for
barcode analysis. Consequently, iBOL will involve an initial
partnership of 26 nations arrayed in the following collaborative
model:
- Four 'central nodes' (Canada, China, European Union [France,
Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom],
United States) will have a primary responsibility in funding and coordinating
iBOL, and in supporting its core analytical facilities and
data archives.
- Nine 'regional nodes' (Australia, Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico,
New Zealand, Norway, Russia, South Africa) will fund barcode
work within their national boundaries and surrounding areas, except
New Zealand and Norway which will lead barcoding programs in the
Antarctic and Arctic respectively.
- Seven 'national nodes' (Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya,
Madagascar, Panama) will augment their national surveys
of biodiversity via barcoding.
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