Graphic by Jerald Pinson, Florida Museum of Natural History.
Graphic by Jerald Pinson, Florida Museum of Natural History.

How the Earth BioGenome Project Can Untangle Mysteries of Life on Earth

  • by Andy Fell

The Earth BioGenome Project, launched in 2018, is moving from planning and pilot projects to major production sequencing. The goal of the project is to complete reference genomes for all species of eurkaryotic life on Earth: animals, plants, fungi, algae and other organisms that package their DNA into a nucleus. The new phase of the project is marked with a special feature collection of articles in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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