Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project
The Darwin Tree of Life Project Consortium
The Darwin Tree of Life Project Consortium
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2022-01-25
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genome
sequencing
biodiversity
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sequencing
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The goals of the Earth Biogenome Project—to sequence the genomes of all eukaryotic life on earth—are as daunting as they are ambitious. The Darwin Tree of Life Project was founded to demonstrate the credibility of these goals and to deliver at-scale genome sequences of unprecedented quality for a biogeographic region: the archipelago of islands that constitute Britain and Ireland. The Darwin Tree of Life Project is a collaboration between biodiversity organizations (museums, botanical gardens, and biodiversity institutes) and genomics institutes. Together, we have built a workflow that collects specimens from the field, robustly identifies them, performs sequencing, generates high-quality, curated assemblies, and releases these openly for the global community to use to build future science and conservation efforts.
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Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2022, 119 (4) e2115642118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115642118
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This is an open access article, available to all readers online, published under a creative commons licensing (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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0027-8424
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1091-6490