Deep learning is driving recent advances behind many everyday technologies, including
speech and image recognition, natural language processing and autonomous driving. It is …

Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

The accessibility of global biodiversity information has surged in the past two decades,
notably through widespread funding initiatives for museum specimen digitization and …

The ever-increasing human footprint even in very remote places on Earth has inspired
efforts to document biodiversity vigorously in case organisms go extinct. However, the data …

Biodiversity remains relatively unknown and understudied in many parts of the developing
world with significant information gaps, in stark contrast to many areas in the developed …

The increased capacity of DNA sequencing has significantly advanced our understanding of
the phylogeny of birds and the proximate and ultimate mechanisms molding their genomic …

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic reveals a
major gap in global biosecurity infrastructure: a lack of publicly available biological samples …

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and
the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical …

We live in an era of unprecedented biodiversity loss, affecting the taxonomic composition of
ecosystems worldwide. The immense task of quantifying human imprints on global …

Although often not collected specifically for the purposes of conservation, herbarium
specimens offer sufficient information to reconstruct parameters that are needed to …