Wellcome Sanger Institute, Collaborators Launch Project to Sequence 66K Species

Nov 01, 2018

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — The Wellcome Sanger Institute today announced that it has launched an effort to sequence the genetic codes of 66,000 different species in the UK.

The initiative — called the Darwin Tree of Life Project — represents the UK portion of the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), which aims to sequence the genomes of all 1.5 million known animals, plants, protozoa, and fungi.

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