APPLICATION OF SOME DNA BARCODE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE TO IDENTIFY MEDICINAL PLANTS

Abstract

The identification of medicinal plants with DNA barcodes is increasingly popular due to its high accuracy. To identify using DNA barcodes, researchers often use computer software to analyze and compare DNA barcodes of research samples with barcodes available on Genbank. Because the published gene sequence data increases rapidly in number, in order to conduct an effective analysis of these data, the software needs to be easy to use, able to calculate quickly, accurately and provide many statistical methods. In this group of software, three software programs, including BLAST software in NCBI, BioEdit v7.0.5.2, MEGA 7, are most commonly used due to meeting the above requirements. The article introduces three software programs to identify medicinal plants with illustrative examples of identifying the Jewels of Opar (Talinum paniculatum) pattern by ITS region barcodes. The research results of the paper show that the process of combining three software programs to identify medicinal plants by DNA gives the most accurate results.