# An Exercise in Species Barcoding

DevFeed: [An Exercise in Species Barcoding](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/an-exercise-in-species-barcoding-40568.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://norvig.com/ibol.html>)

Published: 2009-02-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Peter Norvig](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/peter-norvig.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Sequences](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sequences.md>), [Parsing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parsing.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithm.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [parsing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parsing.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [sequences](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sequences.md>)

## AI overview

An exercise analyzes 1,248 Australian butterfly and moth DNA barcode sequences to examine duplicate and similar sequences. It uses a Python script to compute aggregate statistics and compares Hamming distance with Levenshtein distance for sequences affected by truncation.

## Source excerpt

Just in time for Darwin's birthday: an exercise in analyzing the differences in genomes to detect the boundaries between species