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What are your thoughts on genetic modification? If we could use this to our advantage, genetically modifying different
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Have you encountered any problems or anomalies with the sequencing that lead research in a different direction?
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How do you intend to improve human health with the aid of new crops?
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Does the approximate time taken to sequence an animal differ depending on which group they belong to? Are there more
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What is the most satisfying part of your job?
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This question is about the current problem you are trying to solve- How can you and the other scientists distinguish
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How has Covid 19 influenced your outreach of investigation of international species the project aims to sequence?
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Do you think that the project is likely to help us find ways of advancing agriculture in the future? If so, how?
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Reading the genomes of all life: a new platform for understanding our biodiversity

The Darwin Tree of Life project aims to sequence the genomes of all 60,000 species of eukaryotic organisms in Britain and Ireland. It is a collaboration between biodiversity, genomics and analysis partners that hopes to transform the way we do biology, conservation and biotechnology.

What we do

We use genomic data to understand the evolution of the diversity of life, to explore the biology of organisms and ecosystems, to aid conservation efforts and to provide new tools for medicine and biotechnology.

The Darwin Tree of Life Project is one of several initiatives across the globe working towards the ultimate goal of sequencing all complex life on Earth, in a venture known as the Earth BioGenome Project.

We are focussing on the organisms that live in and around Britain and Ireland because they constitute what is probably the best known and most deeply studied biota in the world, explored during centuries of observation and research.