Chinese scientists launch '10,000-species genome project'

"10,000 kinds of living genome project" was launched in Wuhan on the 30th. Launched by the China
Aquatic Biology Research Institute in partnership with the University of Tibet, Henan Agricultural University, China Agriculture
Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, China
Beijing Genomics Research Institute and Hua zhong University of Science and Technology, the project aims to map the genomes of 10,000 representative primary organisms and establish a large-scale database of native biological genetic resources.
mainly composed of a large group of single-celled uterine organisms, including single-celled uterine algae and native animals. It is widely distributed, exists in any water environment, has described more than 60,000 species, unknown species are incalculable.
According to the introduction, at present, at home and abroad for the biological five major boundaries (animal, plant, fungal and pro-nuclear biosequencing community) have launched a large-scale genome sequencing program, the protozoa has become the only biological group did not initiate large-scale genome sequencing program.
study of native biology in China began in the 1920s. As the origin of primary biology (protopa and algae) in China,
Aquatic has built a national algae and protopatric species library containing more than 2,500 species of true nuclear algae and nearly 600 species of protopa, and in recent years, the genome sequencing and bio-information analysis platform of more than 500 progenic organisms has been completed.
the "10,000 Native Genomes Project" was
led by the National Aquatic Institute. The program will rely on the species resources of more than 3,000 endogeneic algae and protopa species stored by the sponsors, through continuous sample collection and macrogenomic data mining, over the next three years (2020) By 2022), the genome sequencing and analysis of about 10,000 protons will include all 26 doors/classes of protons, covering more than 85% of the species, 60% of the genus and 30% of the genus.
it is understood that the program will operate in an open alliance model, both at home and abroad interested research teams can join. Miao said that the implementation of the program will be important to understand the mechanism of biodiversity formation, the origin and evolution of multicellular organisms/sexual reproduction and other major basic life sciences issues, and promote the ecological environment protection, nutritional health and disease prevention and control related to the excavation and application of proto-biogenetic genetic resources practices.