Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life

By Harris A. Lewin, Gene E. Robinson, W. J. Kress, William J. Baker, Jonathan Coddington, Keith A. Crandall, R. Durbin, Scott V. Edwards, Félix Forest, M. Gilbert and 14 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology

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Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project (2022, background): “The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) proposes that all known eukaryotic species on our planet should be sequenced as a resource for future bioscience and environmental stewardship (4).”
Gfastats: conversion, evaluation and manipulation of genome sequences using assembly graphs (2022, background): “In recent years we have witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publicly available genomes [2,3].”
Ensembl 2021 (2020, background): “To this end, we are creating community-oriented gateways for specific collections of genomes based initially on nodes of the Earth BioGenome Project.”
Ensembl 2020 (2019, background): “These projects are working as part of the Earth BioGenome Project (12) and come with the promise of delivering assemblies and annotation for all known species for less than the total cost of the Human Genome Project (13).”
Ensembl 2019 (2018, background): “org/), Genome10K (8), Bird 10K (9), Bat 1K (10) and eventually the Earth BioGenome Project (11), are planning to create an ever larger collection of sequenced genomes.”
MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads (2023, neutral): “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].”
BlobToolKit – Interactive Quality Assessment of Genome Assemblies (2019, background): “Among other players, the Earth Biogenome Project (Lewin et al. 2018), 10K Vertebrate Genome Project (Genome 10K Community of Scientists 2009) and Tree of Life project (https://www.sanger.ac.uk/ science/programmes/tree-of-life) collectively aim to generate chromo-somally-contiguous reference genomes ”
The Genome Sequence Archive Family: Toward Explosive Data Growth and Diverse Data Types (2021, background): “For one thing, several large-scale sequencing projects (such as Earth BioGenome Project [5], Dog 10K Project [6], Protist 10000 Genomes Project [7]) have been carried out over the past several years, leading to different types of raw sequence data generated around the global and accordingly requirin”
RepeatModeler2 for automated genomic discovery of transposable element families (2020, background): “The number of whole-genome assemblies for species throughout the tree of life continues to grow at a very fast rate, and efforts are underway to produce thousands more (23, 24).”
RepeatModeler2: automated genomic discovery of transposable element families (2019, background): “The number of whole-genome assemblies for species throughout the tree of life continues to grow at a very fast rate , and efforts are underway to produce thousands more (Koepfli et al. 2015; Lewin et al. 2018).”
Ensembl 2024 (2023, methodology): “We have continued to generate annotations for assemblies from global biodiversity initiatives, such as the Darwin Tree of Life project ( 4 , the Vertebrate Genomes Project ( 6 , and the Earth BioGenome Project ( 7 )) (EBP).”