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. 2022 Aug;38(8):811-820.
doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2022.04.008. Epub 2022 May 19.

Earth Biogenome Project: present status and future plans

Pushpendra Kumar Gupta  1
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Earth Biogenome Project: present status and future plans

Pushpendra Kumar Gupta. Trends Genet. 2022 Aug.

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Abstract

Earth Biogenome Project (EBP) is an ambitious project targeted to provide high-quality reference genome sequences for all 1.8 million named extant (living) eukaryote species. The project was launched on 1 November 2018 with an initial 2 years' pilot phase (2018-2020) followed by Phase I (2020-2023), during which genomes of 9400 species will be sequenced. The genomes of the remaining ~1.7 million species will be sequenced in a planned manner during Phase II (2024-2027) and Phase III (2028-2030). In view of the excitement generated and the progress already made, the subject was covered in a Special Feature of a recent issue of PNAS (25 January 2022). The present status and future plans of EBP along with challenges faced are briefly discussed in this article.

Keywords: DNA sequencing; biodiversity; genome; network of networks.

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