Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project

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...

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Published inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 119; no. 4; p. 1
Main Authors Lawniczak, Mara K N, Durbin, Richard, Flicek, Paul, Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Wei, Xiaofeng, Archibald, John M, Baker, William J, Belov, Katherine, Blaxter, Mark L, Marques Bonet, Tomas, Childers, Anna K, Coddington, Jonathan A, Crandall, Keith A, Crawford, Andrew J, Davey, Robert P, Di Palma, Federica, Fang, Qi, Haerty, Wilfried, Hall, Neil, Hoff, Katharina J, Howe, Kerstin, Jarvis, Erich D, Johnson, Warren E, Johnson, Rebecca N, Kersey, Paul J, Liu, Xin, Lopez, Jose Victor, Myers, Eugene W, Pettersson, Olga Vinnere, Phillippy, Adam M, Poelchau, Monica F, Pruitt, Kim D, Rhie, Arang, Castilla-Rubio, Juan Carlos, Sahu, Sunil Kumar, Salmon, Nicholas A, Soltis, Pamela S, Swarbreck, David, Thibaud-Nissen, Françoise, Wang, Sibo, Wegrzyn, Jill L, Zhang, Guojie, Zhang, He, Lewin, Harris A, Richards, Stephen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States National Academy of Sciences 25.01.2022
SeriesThe Earth BioGenome Project: The Launch of a Moonshot for Biology
Subjects
Animals
Annotations
Base Sequence - genetics
Biodiversity
Biological Sciences
Earth BioGenome Project
ethics
Eukaryota - genetics
genome assembly
genomics
Genomics - methods
Genomics - standards
Humans
Informatics
Reference Standards
Reference Values
Sequence Analysis, DNA - methods
Sequence Analysis, DNA - standards
The Earth BioGenome Project: The Launch of a Moonshot for Biology
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ethics
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Summary: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.
Bibliography:Author contributions: M.K.N.L.., R.D., P.F., K.L.-T., X.W., J.M.A., W.J.B., K.B., M.L.B., T.M.B., A.K.C., J.A,C., K.A.C., A.J.C., R.P.D., F.D.P., Q.F., W.H., N.H., K.J.H., K.H., E.D.J., W.E.J., R.N.J., P.J.K., X.L., J.V.L., E.W.M., O.V.P., A.M.P., M.F.P., K.D.P., A.R., J.C.C.-R., S.K.S., N.A.S., P.S.S., D.S., F.T.-N., S.W., J.L.W., G.Z., H.Z., H.A.L., and S.R. wrote the paper; M.K.N.L. chaired the Sample Collection and Processing Committee, and led the development of those standards; R.D. chaired the Assembly Standards Committee and led the development of assembly standards; P.F. chaired the Annotation Standards Committee and led the development of annotation standards; K.L.-T. chaired the Analysis Committee and led the development of analysis standards; X.W. chaired the IT Standards Committee and led the development and design of IT standards; J.M.A., W.J.B., K.B., M.L.B., T.M.B., A.K.C., J.A.C., K.A.C., A.J.C., R.P.D., F.D.P., Q.F., W.H., N.H., K.J.H., K.H., E.D.J., W.E.J., R.N.J., P.J.K., X.L., J.V.L., E.W.M., O.V.P., A.M.P., M.F.P., K.D.P., A.R., J.C.C.-R., S.K.S., N.A.S., P.S.S., D.S., F.T.-N., S.W., J.L.W., G.Z., H.Z., and H.A.L. contributed to Earth BioGenome Project standards development; S.R. led standards development for all subgroups and was Chair of the Earth BioGenome Project International Scientific Committee for the development of these standards and contributed to Earth BioGenome Project standards development.
Edited by Gene Robinson, Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL; received September 10, 2021; accepted November 3, 2021
ISSN:0027-8424
1091-6490
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2115639118