The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence all known eukaryotic species within 10 years. This illustration represents Earth’s continents and oceans as a DNA double helix of 32,111 bases, made up of ...

UC Davis is the administrative home for the Earth BioGenome Project, a global effort to sequence the genetic code of all the planet’s eukaryotes — some 1.5 million known species including ...

Last year, an international group of scientists described a proposed effort called the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), which would sequence and characterize the genomes of every eukaryote on our planet ...

From the mighty blue whale to the humble baker's yeast, scientists have barely begun to understand the vast genetic diversity among lifeforms. Of the 1.67 million known species of animal, plant, fungi ...

LONDON – A global $4.7 billion, 10-year effort to sequence the genomes of all 1.5 million known animal, plant, protozoan and fungal species on earth was launched in London on Thursday. The Earth ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- An international consortium of scientists is proposing a massive project to sequence, catalog and analyze the genomes of all known eukaryotic species on the planet, an undertaking ...

A global effort to map the genomes of all plants, animals, fungi and other microbial life on Earth, is entering a new phase as it moves from pilot projects to full-scale production sequencing. This ...