What about species that are not (yet) in the reference library – species yet unknown to science?
Species not yet in the reference database cannot be definitively [...]
Do you ever find new species while doing these surveys? How do you go about identifying them?
This is closely related to the previous question. We frequently [...]
Can you give more details about the probabilistic species identification algorithm you use and are your methods public?
Our identification pipeline uses a published probabilistic algorithm. The algorithm [...]
Do you pick up sub-species variation and if not is this a possibility in the future?
We do sometimes see different sequences assigned to the same [...]
What is your ‘species’ definition for species that lack matches in the reference database?
We generate Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) as part of our [...]
