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The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a moonshot for biology, aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth's eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of ten years. 🌲Keep up with all EBP updates: https://linktr.ee/earthbiogenomeproject

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 26d

🌍 Biodiversity Genomes: Unlocking Conservation 🧬
Genome data is boosting genetic diversity in endangered species—driving breakthroughs and helping bring life back from the brink.
As EBP reveals new ways to ramp up sequencing, we hope these genomes will strengthen efforts to protect species at risk.

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 1d

🌿 Lots of EBP-affiliates are sequencing plant genomes, want to stay informed on all plant genome insights and discoveries as they crop up? 🌾 Make sure to follow our curated EBP-affiliate list to find new plant-focused initiatives around the world!

💚➡️ Follow other EBP-affiliates: go.bsky.app/CRvXDF4

Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 1d

Every plant holds a story written in DNA 🌿 By decoding these green blueprints, scientists reveal how plants evolved, uncover traits for climate resilience and crop performance, and help protect the biodiversity that sustains life on Earth. 🌎💚

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 1d

🧬 Why sequence plant genomes?
To reveal their hidden histories 🌿, find the genes behind resilience 💪, and protect the green blueprint of life 🌎.

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BCM Human Genome Sequencing Center @bcmhgsc.bsky.social · 1d

🎥 Missed the recent #FrontiersForum webinar on phase II of the Earth BioGenome Project? Watch the recording now ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUbI...

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Harris Lewin & colleagues | The Earth BioGenome Project Phase II: illuminating the eukaryotic tree

YouTube video by Frontiers

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 6d

Today we remember Jane Goodall, who inspired a generation to protect wildlife and wild places, turning careful observation into lasting conservation.

“A 'tireless advocate' for the protection of our natural world'”- Jane Goodall Institute

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Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) @biogeneurope.bsky.social · 8d

We’re almost live! 💥

Today and tomorrow, #BGE’s symposium "Unlocking the power of #genomic science for nature and the #bioeconomy in Europe" (30Sept-1Oct) will be streamed live from @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social, Brussels! 🧬

🎥 Start: 30-09-25 at 13:30 CEST
▶️ Watch live (free): lnkd.in/eQmVztQq

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Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) @biogeneurope.bsky.social · 8d

♨️Live from #BGEconnects:

We just finished “iBOL – How genomics is transforming understanding of biodiversity through DNA-barcoding” by Paul Herbert, director of @cbg-uofg.bsky.social and iBOL.
"It’s changing our view on the understanding of life on our planet."

@iboleurope.bsky.social #DNA

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Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) @biogeneurope.bsky.social · 8d

♨️Live @ #BGEconnects:

Finished “EBP – How genomics is transforming understanding of biodiversity through reference genome production” by Harris Lewin, chair of @ebpgenome.bsky.social.

“Reference-quality genomes can now be produced at scale”, he says. “We need to work together to scale up.”

#BGE

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 16d

Annotating the Corema album Genome: A Step Toward Coastal Ecosystem Conservation biodiversitygenomics.eu/2024/10/14/a...
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Annotating the Corema album Genome: A Step Toward Coastal Ecosystem Conservation - Biodiversity Genomics Europe

Case study Annotating the Corema album Genome: A Step Toward Coastal Ecosystem Conservation Researchers launched a groundbreaking project to improve the genomic annotation of the white crowberry (Core...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · Apr 30

Scientists hope sequencing genome of tiny ‘functionally extinct’ frog could help save it #Science #Biology #Genetics #FrogConservation #Genomics #Biodiversity

Scientists hope sequencing genome of tiny ‘functionally extinct’ frog could help save it

Corroboree frog belongs to 100m-year-old family of amphibians but is now found only in the puddles and peat bogs of Kosciuszko national park Scientists have sequenced the genome of the critically endangered...

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Tal Idan @talidan.bsky.social · Jun 27

The #ATLSea project: a #France2030 mission to sequence marine life from every coastline. Collecting invertebrates off the coast of Marseille - from sponges to sea slugs. ATLASea is building an incredible database one genome at a time. 🐚🦐 #OceanGenome #Biodiversity

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 16d

A new reference genome for the conservation of coastal spider species in the face of anthropogenic change biodiversitygenomics.eu/2024/08/26/a...
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A new reference genome for the conservation of coastal spider species in the face of anthropogenic change - Biodiversity Genomics Europe

Case study New Genome for a Spider Endemic to Tenerife The genome of a unique beach-dwelling spider species, endemic to Tenerife, will be a crucial resource for studying the impact of human-induced ch...

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · Dec 2

New publication: The European Reference #Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable #biodiversity genomics, by @KvanOers and others. #genomics #eukaryote #sequencing

https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-024-00054-6

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Cell Bio News @cellbionews.bsky.social · 25d

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

Engineered pathway lets carbon be plugged directly into key metabolic pathways.

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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 15d

Later TODAY at 15:00 CEST! Efficient evidence-based genome annotation with EviAnn 🧬
👉 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/efficie... #genomeannotation #genomes #seminar #research #EviAnn @ebpgenome.bsky.social

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Guigó Lab @guigolab.bsky.social · 16d

🌍✨ Master’s project in our Lab @crg.eu
🌱🧬 Help build the Biodiversity Long-Read Transcriptomic Catalogue @ebpgenome.bsky.social with @pacbio.bsky.social & @nanoporetech.com

💻 Python/R, Linux, seq data
💶 600€/mo + travel
📩 [email protected] / [email protected]
ℹ️ www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

Centre for Genomic Regulation Website

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Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies.bsky.social · 22d

💡 How can we build #AI models that generalize across species + tasks? 🐦🐋🐒

This is a fundamental question for our work at ESP and it’s the topic of our most recent paper and blog post: www.earthspecies.org/blog/what-ma...

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What Matters for Bioacoustic Encoding: A Practical Training Recipe for Building Generalizable Models - Earth Species Project

To better understand what matters for building a generalizable bioacoustic encoder, we tested 19 models across 26 datasets and a new evaluation benchmark. Our main finding is that a two-stage training...

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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 20d

#Seminar: Evidence-based genome #annotation with EviAnn
🗓️ Tuesday, Sep 23 - 15:00 CEST
🔗 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/efficie...
Aleksey Zimin will introduce & demonstrate the use of #EviAnn -a new system for eukaryotic gene annotation.

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Efficient evidence-based genome annotation with EviAnn

This month's ERGA BioGenome Analysis & Applications Seminar will feature a talk by speaker Aleksey V. Zimin about EviAnn (Evidence-based Annotator), a novel evidence-based eukaryotic gene annotation s...

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Chris Lennard @cklennard.bsky.social · 27d

Cool intro to the Earth Biogenome Project (link in the article)

… and who doesn’t love our cute Aussie spiders? 🕷️

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'Dark DNA' may explain dancing spiders' extraordinary diversity

There are many more species of peacock spider than other animals, scientists think they may know why.

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Earth BioGenome Project reviews the magnitude of the tasks in sourcing, sequencing, assembling, annotating, & analysing #genomes at scale, and explores the associated scientific, technical, social, legal, ethical, & funding challenges www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

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Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) @biogeneurope.bsky.social · 21d

🔔🎙️ New episode of the #GenomicConnections Podcast! This month we discuss #ScienceCommunication and its importance for #biodiversity genomics 💬
🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7oGP...

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#5. Communicating the Science behind Biodiversity Genomics

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 Register today and get your questions answered!
🧬 Ask the experts your questions at the Frontiers Deep Dive
🔥 What will you ask these EBP trailblazers about the Phase II Roadmap? 👉 bit.ly/46ko9cZ
🌍 Frontiers in Science Deep Dive
🗓️ 18 Sept 2025
⏰ 16:00–17:30 CEST
👉 Register: bit.ly/4plyPzG

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Aug 6

A high-quality genome for investigating the impact of microplastics on striped Venus clams (Chamelea gallina) biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/04/08/a... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social #biodiversity #genomics

A high-quality genome for investigating the impact of microplastics on striped Venus clams (Chamelea gallina) - Biodiversity Genomics Europe

Case study A high-quality genome for investigating the impact of microplastics on striped Venus clams (Chamelea gallina) In June 2024, a team of researchers from the Department of Biology of the Unive...

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Sep 4

By the end of 2024, EBP-affiliated projects had publicly released 2'000 high-quality #genome assemblies 🧬, representing more than 500 eukaryotic families. www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci... #biodiversity #genomics

Frontiers | The Earth BioGenome Project Phase II: illuminating the eukaryotic tree of life

The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) aims to “sequence life for the future of life” by generating high-quality reference genome sequences for all recognized euk...

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 28d

🌍 Upcoming Event: Frontiers in Science Deep Dive
🧬✨ Explore the EBP Phase II Roadmap and hear directly from the lead authors about scaling up biodiversity genomics worldwide. Bring your questions and join the discussion!
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏰ 16:00–17:30 CEST
👉 Register here: bit.ly/4plyPzG

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