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Schools @ Darwin Tree of Life Updates

  • 🍎🍏 Blazing the apple trail in Edinburgh

    May 10, 2022
  • Pearl-bordered fritillary: At risk butterfly lays foundations for her species’ recovery

    May 3, 2022
  • 🐸 Warts and all: The differences between frogs and toads

    April 6, 2022
  • 🐌🌊 Snail hunting in the dark sea caves of Wales

    March 30, 2022
  • πŸ„πŸ§¬ Chicken of the Woods: Our first fungus genome

    March 18, 2022

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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 70,000 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.


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  • Understanding our fish, keeping our seas sustainable April 27, 2022
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  • Sequencing all life, explained in numbers February 17, 2022
  • How bioinformatics can crack the complex case of protist biodiversity February 17, 2022

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