Resources
OBON publications
- OBON Strategy
- OBON Poster presented at HIFMB Symposium (Germany), June 2025
- OBON Poster presented at POGO-26 meeting (Malaysia), Feb 2025
- OBON Poster presented at UNOD Meeting (Barcelona) and WESTPAC 2024 (Bangkok)
- Leinen et al (2022). The Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON). Marine Technology Society Journal, Number 3, May/June 2022, pp. 106-107(2)
- Toward a Global Public Repository of Community Protocols to Encourage Best Practices in Biomolecular Ocean Observing and Research (Front. Mar. Sci., 11 October 2021)
- OBON Poster presented at OSM24
- OBON Fact Sheet
- OBON on the ‘Ocean Decade Show’ Podcast
Resources for policy and management
- The USA National Aquatic eDNA Strategy (June 2024)
- De Brauwer et al. (2023). Integrating environmental DNA science into Australia’s marine parks: a roadmap. CSIRO, Hobart.
- Gold et al. (2022). A manager’s guide to using eDNA metabarcoding in marine ecosystems. PeerJ 10: e14071
- Lee et al (2023). Adoption of environmental DNA in public agency practice. Environmental DNA 6(1) e470
- Rourke et al. (2022). Environmental DNA as a tool for assessing fish biomass: A review of approaches and future considerations for resource surveys. Environmental DNA 4: 9-33
- Introduction to Using eDNA for Environmental Management
- Implementation of Environmental DNA (eDNA) as a Tool for Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management. NOAA White Paper NMFS-NWFSC-WP-2020-01 August 2020. https://doi.org/10.25923/e736-vn83 U.S. Department of Commerce | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | National Marine Fisheries Service
State of eDNA science
- Eble et al (2020). Chapter two – Marine environmental DNA: Approaches, applications and opportunities. Advances in Marine Biology 86(1): 141-169
- Chavez et al (2021). Observing life in the sea using environmental DNA. Oceanography 34(2):102-119, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.218.
- Guri et al (2024), Predicting trawl catches using environmental DNA, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 81, Issue 8, October 2024, Pages 1536–1548, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae097
- Shelton et al (2019), Environmental DNA provides quantitative estimates of a threatened salmon species, Biological Conservation, Volume 237, September 2019, Pages 383-391, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.07.003
- Salter et al (2019), Environmental DNA concentrations are correlated with regional biomass of Atlantic cod in oceanic waters, Communications Biology volume 2, Article number: 461 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0696-8
- Fontes JT, Katoh K, Pires R, Soares P, Costa FO (2024) Benchmarking the discrimination power of commonly used markers and amplicons in marine fish (e)DNA (meta)barcoding. Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 8: e128646. https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.8.128646
- Ferreira AO, Azevedo OM, Barroso C, Duarte S, Egas C, Fontes JT, Ré P, Piecho-Santos AM, Costa FO (2024). Multi-marker DNA metabarcoding for precise species identification in ichthyoplankton samples.
Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69963-7
Protocols and best practices
- BeBOP on Github
- Ocean Best Practices System
- Environmental DNA Protocol Guide for Biomonitoring (Australia)
- Environmental DNA Test Validation Guidelines (Australia)
- Samuel RM, Meyer R, Buttigieg PL, Davies N, Jeffery NW, Meyer C, Pavloudi C, Pitz KJ, Sweetlove M, Theroux S, van de Kamp J and Watts A (2021) Toward a Global Public Repository of Community Protocols to Encourage Best Practices in Biomolecular Ocean Observing and Research. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:758694. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.758694
- Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods (Science Direct)
- Introduction to Developing DNA Reference Barcode Sequences (West Coast OBON)
Training Materials
Data Management
- UN Ocean Decade Data Strategy – summary report
- UN Ocean Decade Data Strategy – full report
- FAIR principles
- CARE principles
- Preprint of ‘Earth Science Data Repositories: Implementing the CARE Principles’ – a paper co-produced by OBON data leads and the Earth Science Information Partners
Technology
- Link to specifications in BeBOP (if available)
- Descriptions of technologies in use across projects
- OBON’s vision of technology development
- Link to new developments in molecular techniques
Other web resources on eDNA
- ENVIRONMENTAL DNA Information and Resources: https://ednaresources.science/