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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE to document the DNA of 1.3 million species. "The plan is to eventually freeze embryos, seeds, and other genetic samples from as many of Earth's life-forms as possible ... (At the) Smithsonian Institute's biorepository ... that has space for more than 4.2 million tiny vials of cryogenically frozen tissue samples." http://lnkd.in/dtVxkW6 View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL GENOME INITIATIVE by the Smithsonian Institute "recently started a project akin to the Norwegian Barcode of Life network, a plan to sequence the DNA of each and every one of Earth’s identified species ... called the Global Genome Initiative." http://lnkd.in/dkEu_8K View in LinkedIn

BIO-STARTER BREW NEEDED. "If scientists start with a living relative of an extinct species and modify its genome by exchanging parts of the modern genome with the corresponding sequences from an ancient genome, probably in cell culture ... answer is “Maybe“. It might be possible that the resulting organism would function like the extinct species." http://lnkd.in/dSrVBvg View in LinkedIn

NORWEGIAN BARCODE OF LIFE. "Since 2009, when Norway launched the project to catalog every native species living in its borders, scientists running the Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative have identified 1,165 new species ... there are roughly 55,000 distinct species of life living in the country, so far about 41,000 have been discovered." http://lnkd.in/dkEu_8K View in LinkedIn

DNA BANKING IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GERMPLASM CONSERVATION. DNA may be a more efficient method for conservation efforts. Many plant seeds are desiccation or cold sensitive or are normally vegetatively propagated. http://lnkd.in/dFzpyDN View in LinkedIn

GIANT DNA DATABASES EXIST TODAY. These bioinformatics databases contain many kingdoms of creatures and is the modern virtual repository. There are about 2,826 databases and tools at present count. http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/obrc/ View in LinkedIn

DE-EXTINCTION. "Cloning is ... an option for bringing extinct species back. Proponents include author Stewart Brand, and ... include the Passenger Pigeon and the woolly mammoth. De-extinction efforts are now underway to revive the species by extracting DNA fragments from preserved specimens, and later, using Band-tailed Pigeons as surrogate parents." http://lnkd.in/dFz2nP7http://lnkd.in/dWxJ-JT View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL DATABASES may be all that is needed for archiving purposes. The raw DNA sequence can be used to reconstruct a simple organism such as a virus. More complex organisms are possible when there is a near living relative, according to Harvard's George Church, who is keen to resurrect extinct species from DNA samples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biological_databases View in LinkedIn

DE-EXTINCTION OPTIONS, "is to clone using cells from cryopreserved tissue of a recently extinct animal to generate viable eggs that can then be implanted in a closely related surrogate mother. Another is ... 'genome editing' by hybridising a living species with an extinct species ... The technique could (use) ancient DNA from museum specimens and fossils." http://lnkd.in/dF5RhVX View in LinkedIn

RESURRECTION OF FUNCTIONAL TASMANIAN TIGER DNA was achieved in transgenic mice, showing the revival of non coding DNA, after recovery of a sample from a museum specimen. "While other studies have examined extinct coding DNA function in vitro, this is the first example of the restoration of extinct non-coding DNA and examination of its function in vivo." http://lnkd.in/dCgNDk5 View in LinkedIn