Barcoding works. When a named reference specimen exists in Hebert's database, the system can accept a bit of tissue, sequence the barcode region, and come up with a species name.

Fungal barcoding provides a molecular method for identifying the species and deciding which type of medicine is most likely to work. Q. What is fungal barcoding? A.

A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data on certain products. It can be read by optical scanners called barcode readers or scanned from an image by special software.

While barcode scanning applications have been available to smartphone users for several years, the huge rise in consumers using the technology this holiday season shows that it is crossing over ...