Environmental resource management

Tree (set theory)

Phylogenetic tree

Archipelago

Credibility

Mathematics

Evolutionary biology

Biology

Gene

Tree of life (biology)

Biodiversity

Engineering

Mathematical analysis

Workflow

Political science

Darwinism

Systems engineering

Geography

Ecology

Darwin (ADL)

Data science

Computer science

Charles darwin

Environmental science

Genetics

Database

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The goals of the Earth Biogenome Project-to sequence the genomes of all eukaryotic life on earth-are as daunting as they are ambitious. The Darwin Tree of Life Project was founded to demonstrate the credibility of these goals and to deliver at-scale genome sequences of unprecedented quality for a biogeographic region: the archipelago of islands that constitute Britain and Ireland. The Darwin Tree of Life Project is a collaboration between biodiversity organizations (museums, botanical gardens, and biodiversity institutes) and genomics institutes. Together, we have built a workflow that collects specimens from the field, robustly identifies them, performs sequencing, generates high-quality, curated assemblies, and releases these openly for the global community to use to build future science and conservation efforts.

Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project