Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project

By The Darwin, Tree, L. Consortium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022

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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.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Molecular Biology

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• MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads (2023, unknown): “The Earth Biogenome Project (EBP) [3] was founded to coordinate and promote biodiversity genomics through affiliated projects such as the Darwin Tree of Life project (DToL) [4], the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) [5] and the Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics project (ASG) [6].”