“When it comes to genome sequencing, visionaries like to throw around big numbers: There’s the UK Biobank, for example, which promises to decipher the genomes of 500,000 individuals, or Iceland’s effort to study the genomes of its entire human population. Yesterday, at a meeting here organized by the Smithsonian Initiative on Biodiversity Genomics and the Shenzhen, China–based sequencing powerhouse BGI, a small group of researchers upped the ante even more, announcing their intent to, eventually, sequence “all life on Earth.””
Interested? Read more over at Science.
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For a less-than-positive perspective on this story see: https://jeffollerton.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/proposals-to-sequence-the-dna-of-all-life-on-earth-suffer-from-the-same-issues-as-naming-all-the-species/
Oh, thanks for this!
You’re most welcome; there’s been some criticism of my post on Twitter, but it needs to be read in the context of my earlier post that I linked to.