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Scientists have officially launched a massive global project, the Earth Biogenome Project (EBP), in London, uk, to sequence, catalog and classify the genomes of all 1.5 million known eukaryotic organisms on Earth over 10 years at an estimated cost of $4.7 billion, physicists reported.
scientists say the Earth's Biological Genome Project is the "next biological moon landing" after the Human Genome Project (HGP).
the Human Genome Project, which lasted 13 years and cost $3 billion (about $5 billion at today's price), completed the mapping of human DNA in 2003. Harris Luin, a professor at the University of California, who heads the Earth Biogenome Project at
, said the project is expected to "ultimately create a new foundation for advancing biodiversity conservation and sustainable human society."
so far, humans have sequenced the genomes of fewer than 3,500 complex life species (only 0.2%) of them, and fewer than 100 of the sequencing results have reached the "reference quality" level available for review and learning.
The Earth Biogenome Project is expected to add millions of genome sequencing results to "reference quality."
scientists say this will revolutionise human understanding of biology and evolution and promote conservation efforts.
currently, 17 institutions from the United States, Britain, China and other countries have signed a memorandum of understanding committing to work together to achieve the project's ultimate goal.
the amount of data the project intends to collect from organisms is expected to reach "tens of billions" (exascale), more than Twitter or astronomy as a whole.
project participants have agreed to store the data in a public database that everyone can access for research. the
Earth Biogenome Project will also include a number of large-scale research projects around the world, including a project led by researchers at Rockefeller University to sequence the genetic code of all 66,000 vertebrates, a project in China to sequence the genomes of 10,000 plants, and the Global Ant Genome Alliance project to sequence the genomes of about 200 species of ants.
Source: Science Daily.
