[Taxacom] Earth BioGenome Project in the news

[Stephen Thorpe]

Well, I personally view it as corporate funding driven BS!

Stephen

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On Fri, 2/11/18, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [Taxacom] Earth BioGenome Project in the news
 To: "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Friday, 2 November, 2018, 11:20 AM
 
 Dear Taxacomers,
 
 I heard a news item this morning in
 Australia regarding the Earth BioGenome
 Project which appears to be having some
 sort of launch around now.
 
 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/researchers-launch-plan-sequence-66000-species-united-kingdom-s-just-start
 
 https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news/view/genetic-code-66000-uk-species-be-sequenced
 
 referring back to this April 2018
 article:
 http://www.pnas.org/content/115/17/4325.long
 
 My take is that this is of relevance to
 the taxonomic community in a number
 of ways - e.g. to reveal cryptic
 species, other taxa that may in fact be
 the same, etc. etc. - as well as
 drawing heavily on the work of taxonomists
 to date (although a lot of the
 species-intensive inventorying is likely to
 be in the out years). I'd be interested
 to hear how others in the taxonomy
 world are viewing this...
 
 Regards to all - Tony
 
 Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
 https://about.me/TonyRees
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