AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Life On Land
KEYWORDS
biodiversity, Genome, DNA
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
HARRIS LEWIN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNA, DAVIS, CHAIR
JOHN KRESS, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, CO-CHAIR
GENE ROBINSON, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, CO-CHAIR
WEBSITE
https://www.earthbiogenome.org
Earth BioGenome Project
Sequencing Life for the Future of Life
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. 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.