The goal of the workshop is to discuss possible strategies to efficiently transfer information and experience among worldwide genomics initiatives to guide the development of standardised protocols for DNA extraction and strategies to identify SNP sets, with high discrimination power, from the most relevant timber species threatened by illegal logging and trading. Multi-species high throughput genotyping tools based on selected SNPs could highly improve species identification and enable timber tracking.
Thus, this workshop will integrate efforts from experts in different areas of tree genomics, bioinformatics and policy makers to generate the appropriate framework for discussion and coordination in order to develop a roadmap for defining strategies for sampling and genotyping and for enriching publicly accessible databases to improve timber/wood tracking.