What is the Earth BioGenome Project?
Powerful advances in genome sequencing technology, informatics, automation, and artificial intelligence, have propelled humankind to the threshold of a new beginning in understanding, utilizing, and conserving biodiversity. For the first time in history, it is possible to efficiently sequence the genomes of all known species, and to use genomics to help discover the remaining 80 to 90 percent of species that are currently hidden from science.
A GRAND CHALLENGE
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a moonshot for biology, aims to sequence, catalog and characterize the genomes of all of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of ten years.
A GRAND VISION
Create a new foundation for biology to drive
solutions for preserving biodiversity and sustaining human societies.
Why Sequence Life?
Featured
Species
Teleogryllus oceanicus [Hawaiian Cricket]
Featured Publication
Here, we test this in a wild population of Hawaiian crickets using temporal genomics and a high-quality chromosome-level cricket genome.
Events & Education
Biodiversity genomics 24
Join thousands of researchers for a mix of sessions with invited talks, including keynote presentations, and open sessions proposed by researchers around the world.
Biodiveristy Genomics Academy
Join us for a series of free, open to all, online-only, short and interactive sessions on how to use the bioinformatics tools and approaches that underpin the EBP.
“To sequence everything in the world—that is the reason we are here.”
—Huanming Yang, BIOGENOMICS 2017 CONFERENCE, February 24, 2017
