True nuclear biosequencing: Framework for the Earth's Biogenomics Project.

At the closing forum of the BioGenomics Conference (BioGenomics 2017), co-sponsored by the Smithsonian's Biodiversity Genomics Project Team and China Huada Genetics, a team of scientists from the University of California, Davis genomics scientist Harris Levin and Huada genetic biologist Zhang Guojie joined forces to launch another project similar to the Human Genome Project (HGP), the Earth Biogenomics Project (EBP), to sequence all the real nuclear organisms on Earth.
the EBP program, first proposed about two years ago, will focus on sequencing the total number of ekernel organisms, including all plants, animals and single-celled organisms, according to the official website of the journal Science.
team estimates that, thanks to advances in sequencing technology and lower costs, it could take as long as 10 years and the equivalent cost of HGP (about $2.7 billion) to sequence all the ekernels.
The existing EBP framework is approximately three steps: the first step is to select a representative for DNA sequencing for each of the 9,000 elected departments of the uerical biology, and the reference genome is obtained to be comparable or better than the human genome; The sequencing of one species for each of the 150,000 to 200,000 genus of the nucleus does not need to be as detailed as the first step, and the third step is to roughly sequence 1.5 million endo-nuclear biological species.
project advocates say EBP has made a good start, with several sequencing projects already under way, including the Genome 10K Project for 10,000 vertebrates, the i5K Project to decipher the genomes of 5,000 arthropods, and the B10K Project for sequencing genomes for more than 10,000 poultry species.
"We're going to turn EBP into a 'fighter in a fighter,'" he said.
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At the meeting, leading genomics companies such as China Huada Gene and the Sanger Institute of the Wellcome Foundation in the United Kingdom expressed their active participation, but the EBP project still faces major challenges: first, because of biodiversity issues, the project can only be finalized with the participation of more developing countries and more international cooperation;
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