The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics

A genomic database of all Earth’s eukaryotic species could contribute to many scientific discoveries; however, only a tiny fraction of species have genomic information available. In 2018, scientists across the world united under the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), aiming to produce a database of high-quality reference genomes containing all ~1.5 million recognized eukaryotic species. As the European node of the EBP, the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) sought to implement a new decentralised, equitable and inclusive model for producing reference genomes. For this, ERGA launched a Pilot Project establishing the first distributed reference genome production infrastructure and testing it on 98 eukaryotic species from 33 European countries. Here we outline the infrastructure and explore its effectiveness for scaling high-quality reference genome production, whilst considering equity and inclusion. The outcomes and lessons learned provide a solid foundation for ERGA while offering key learnings to other transnational, national genomic resource projects and the EBP.

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/7175

Citação

MacCartney, A. M., Formenti, G., Amorim, I. R., Mazzoni, C. J., & Borges, P. A. V.... et al. (2024). The European Reference Genome Atlas: Piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics. "npj Biodiversity", 3, 28. DOI:10.1038/s44185-024-00054-6

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

DOI

10.1038/s44185-024-00054-6

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GBA - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais / Articles in International Journals

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