Creating an eco-informatized society through a glass of water. Biological monitoring based on environmental DNA analysis enables ecological surveys of rivers, ponds, and seas without capturing organisms.
Environmental DNA analysis
What is environmental DNA?
It is a research method that allows us to understand the organisms inhabiting in the target site non-invasively.
●Two major directions of eDNA analysis
1. Species-specific detection
2. Metabarcoding
Differences from the other conventional survey methods
Contributions to Academia and Society
●Provide data for a variety of decision making at any level
The future of environmental DNA analysis
●Many challenges and related tasks that may arise
●Making progress in collaboration with The eDNA Society
This center is heavily involved in the establishment of The eDNA Society, and the society office is currently set up within the center. We are working in conjunction with nationwide movements in a tight relation with The eDNA analysis.
- The center is devoting to make Shiga an advanced
- prefecture that adopts eDNA monitoring as a tool for
- administrative decision makings relating to bioresources.
- ✓Sample collection and archiving
- ✓Data accumulation and disclosure
- ✓Continuous disclosure of data that is the basis for variety of decision makings