Texas A&M University - Corpun Christi (via Public) / Island University Helps Remove Research Barriers with Open-Access DNA Database

"Dr. Christopher Bird, Assistant Professor of Biology at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, started working on an international collaboration with a group of colleagues in 2011 called Diversity of the Indo-Pacific Network. Since then, he has helped build this project into what is now known as the Genomic Observatories Metadatabase (GeOMe) with $500 thousand in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. What started as a non-public database specializing in marine genetics in the Indo-Pacific, has now become an open-access database for microbes, flora and fauna across many scientific disciplines that is accessible to the greater scientific community and the general public."