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Standards Recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project

Published version
Peer-reviewed

Type

Article

Change log

Authors

Lawniczak, Mara 
Flicek, Paul 
Lindlad-Toh, Kerstin 
Wei, Xiaofeng 

Abstract

A global international initiative such as the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) requires both agreement and coordination on standards to ensure that the collective effort generates rapid progress towards its goals. To this end, the EBP initiated five technical standards committees comprising volunteer members from the global genomics scientific community: Sample Collection and Processing, Sequencing and Assembly, Annotation, Analysis, and, IT and Informatics. The current versions of the resulting standards documents are available on the EBP website, with the recognition that opportunities, technologies and challenges may improve or change in the future requiring flexibility for the EBP to meet its goals. Here, we describe some highlights from the proposed standards, and areas where additional challenges will need to be met.

Description

Funder: Howard Hughes Medical Institute


Funder: National Science Foundation; Grant(s): DBI:IIBR:CAREER #1943371

Keywords

Earth BioGenome Project, ethics, genome assembly, genomics, Animals, Base Sequence, Biodiversity, Eukaryota, Genomics, Humans, Reference Standards, Reference Values, Sequence Analysis, DNA

Journal Title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA

Conference Name

Journal ISSN

0027-8424
1091-6490

Volume Title

119

Publisher

National Academy of Sciences
Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (WT108749/Z/15/Z)
NIH, EMBL, NSF, Smithsonian, NMNH, USDA, HHMI