{"id":84398,"date":"2018-11-02T13:03:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-ambitious-plan-to-decode-every-complex-species-on-earth"},"modified":"2018-11-02T13:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T20:03:12","slug":"the-ambitious-plan-to-decode-every-complex-species-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-ambitious-plan-to-decode-every-complex-species-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"The ambitious plan to decode every complex species on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ambitious-plan-to-decode-every-complex-species-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An ambitious effort to sequence the genome of every complex organism on Earth was officially launched on 1 November in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVariation is the fount of all genetic knowledge,\u201d says project member and evolutionary geneticist Jenny Graves of La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. \u201cThe more variation you have the better \u2014 so why not sequence everything?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence the genomes of the roughly 1.5 million known animal, plant, protozoan and fungal species \u2014 collectively known as eukaryotes \u2014 worldwide over the next decade. The initiative is estimated to cost US$4.7 billion, although only a small proportion of that money has been committed so far.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-07279-z\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586&#45;018&#45;07279-z<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ambitious effort to sequence the genome of every complex organism on Earth was officially launched on 1 November in London. \u201cVariation is the fount of all genetic knowledge,\u201d says project member and evolutionary geneticist Jenny Graves of La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. \u201cThe more variation you have the better \u2014 so why not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}