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. 2022 Jan 25;119(4):e2115635118.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2115635118.

The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock

Harris A Lewin  1   2 Stephen Richards  3 Erez Lieberman Aiden  4 Miguel L Allende  5   6 John M Archibald  7 Miklós Bálint  8   9 Katharine B Barker  10 Bridget Baumgartner  11 Katherine Belov  12 Giorgio Bertorelle  13 Mark L Blaxter  14 Jing Cai  15 Nicolette D Caperello  3 Keith Carlson  16 Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio  17 Shu-Miaw Chaw  18 Lei Chen  15 Anna K Childers  19 Jonathan A Coddington  20 Dalia A Conde  21   22 Montserrat Corominas  23   24 Keith A Crandall  25   26 Andrew J Crawford  27 Federica DiPalma  28 Richard Durbin  29   30 ThankGod E Ebenezer  31 Scott V Edwards  32   33 Olivier Fedrigo  34 Paul Flicek  30   35 Giulio Formenti  36 Richard A Gibbs  37 M Thomas P Gilbert  38   39 Melissa M Goldstein  40 Jennifer Marshall Graves  41   42 Henry T Greely  43 Igor V Grigoriev  44   45 Kevin J Hackett  46 Neil Hall  47 David Haussler  48   49 Kristofer M Helgen  50 Carolyn J Hogg  12 Sachiko Isobe  51 Kjetill Sigurd Jakobsen  52 Axel Janke  8 Erich D Jarvis  34   49 Warren E Johnson  53   54 Steven J M Jones  55 Elinor K Karlsson  56   57 Paul J Kersey  58 Jin-Hyoung Kim  59 W John Kress  60 Shigehiro Kuraku  61   62 Mara K N Lawniczak  14 James H Leebens-Mack  63 Xueyan Li  64 Kerstin Lindblad-Toh  57   65 Xin Liu  66 Jose V Lopez  67   68 Tomas Marques-Bonet  69   70   71   72 Sophie Mazard  73 Jonna A K Mazet  74 Camila J Mazzoni  75   76 Eugene W Myers  77 Rachel J O'Neill  78   79 Sadye Paez  34 Hyun Park  80 Gene E Robinson  81 Cristina Roquet  82   83 Oliver A Ryder  84   85 Jamal S M Sabir  86   87 H Bradley Shaffer  88   89 Timothy M Shank  90 Jacob S Sherkow  81   91 Pamela S Soltis  92   93 Boping Tang  94 Leho Tedersoo  95   96 Marcela Uliano-Silva  14 Kun Wang  15 Xiaofeng Wei  66 Regina Wetzer  97   98 Julia L Wilson  30 Xun Xu  66 Huanming Yang  66 Anne D Yoder  99   100 Guojie Zhang  64   66   101   102
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The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock

Harris A Lewin et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interest.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Global progress in whole-genome sequencing across all eukaryotic taxonomic levels. Data source: National Center for Biotechnology Information, March 4, 2021 (18).
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Year-over-year progress in whole genome sequencing for all eukaryotic taxa (Upper) and family-level (Lower) eukaryotic taxa, 2010 to March 4, 2021. The metrics for draft and reference quality assemblies are given in the text.

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