1. Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project.
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Lawniczak MKN, Durbin R, Flicek P, Lindblad-Toh K, Wei X, Archibald JM, Baker WJ, Belov K, Blaxter ML, Marques Bonet T, Childers AK, Coddington JA, Crandall KA, Crawford AJ, Davey RP, Di Palma F, Fang Q, Haerty W, Hall N, Hoff KJ, Howe K, Jarvis ED, Johnson WE, Johnson RN, Kersey PJ, Liu X, Lopez JV, Myers EW, Pettersson OV, Phillippy AM, Poelchau MF, Pruitt KD, Rhie A, Castilla-Rubio JC, Sahu SK, Salmon NA, Soltis PS, Swarbreck D, Thibaud-Nissen F, Wang S, Wegrzyn JL, Zhang G, Zhang H, Lewin HA, and Richards S
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- Animals, Biodiversity, Genomics methods, Humans, Reference Standards, Reference Values, Sequence Analysis, DNA methods, Sequence Analysis, DNA standards, Base Sequence genetics, Eukaryota genetics, Genomics standards
- 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 toward 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., Competing Interests: Competing interest statement: P.F. is a member of the scientific advisory boards of Fabric Genomics, Inc. and Eagle Genomics, Ltd., (Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.)
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- 2022
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