The ecosystem

Environmental DNA in the United States is an ecosystem of laboratories, equipment makers, agencies, data aggregators and the people who have to act on the results — most of them small, most of them under-resourced, all of them producing data that currently cannot be combined. Common Measure only works if it is useful to all of them.

01 · THE LAYERS

Who is in it

We did not build this to compete inside the ecosystem. We built it to hold the ecosystem together.

Dashboards, portals and analysis tools all depend on comparable inputs. The specification sits upstream of them: any tool can read a conforming record.

01
Laboratories and core facilities
Commercial genomics providers, university cores, agency laboratories and consultancies with in-house sequencing. They produce the data. We serve them; we never compete with them.
02
Equipment and sampling technology
Filter, sampler and sequencing platform makers. The front end of every workflow, and where provenance begins.
03
Agencies and programs
Federal, state and tribal bodies that fund monitoring, set methods and act on detections.
04
Data aggregators
The national and state databases where a detection has to land before it can influence a decision. This is where results either count or dead-end.
05
Buyers of evidence
Consultancies, utilities, energy and infrastructure operators, restoration finance. The people for whom a detection has money attached to it.