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17 January 2022

UK project underpins global effort to map genomes of all life on earth

The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) - a global effort to sequence 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 genome sequencing.

22 November 2021

New HiFi platform increases sequencing power to help decode the genome of all life on earth

The Earlham Institute (EI) has boosted its capability in high-fidelity long-read sequencing with a twin set of the cutting-edge Pacific Biosciences Sequel IIe platforms to support the Earth BioGenome Projects, providing the UK bioscience community with critical technologies for biodiversity genomics.

08 November 2019

Earlham Institute takes part in ambitious 'Tree of Knowledge' to map the genomes of all life in UK

Earlham Institute (EI) has been awarded over 700k from the Wellcome Trust for the Darwin Tree of Life Project, aiming to produce a complete genomic UK biota as part of the wider Earth Biogenome Project (EBP).

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