@article {Lewin2018,
	title = {Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life},
	journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
	volume = {115},
	year = {2018},
	month = {apr},
	pages = {4325{\textendash}4333},
	abstract = {Increasing our understanding of Earth{\textquoteright}s biodiversity and responsibly stewarding its resources are among the most crucial scientific and social challenges of the new millennium. These challenges require fundamental new knowledge of the organization, evolution, functions, and interactions among millions of the planet{\textquoteright}s organisms. Herein, we present a perspective on the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a moonshot for biology that aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth{\textquoteright}s eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of 10 years. The outcomes of the EBP will inform a broad range of major issues facing humanity, such as the impact of climate change on biodiversity, the conservation of endangered species and ecosystems, and the preservation and enhancement of ecosystem services. We describe hurdles that the project faces, including data-sharing policies that ensure a permanent, freely available resource for future scientific discovery while respecting access and benefit sharing guidelines of the Nagoya Protocol. We also describe scientific and organizational challenges in executing such an ambitious project, and the structure proposed to achieve the project{\textquoteright}s goals. The far-reaching potential benefits of creating an open digital repository of genomic information for life on Earth can be realized only by a coordinated international effort.},
	keywords = {access and benefit sharing, Biodiversity, data science, genome sequencing, Genomics},
	issn = {0027-8424},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.1720115115},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29686065 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=PMC5924910 http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1720115115},
	author = {Lewin, Harris A. and Robinson, Gene E. and Kress, W. John and Baker, William J. and Coddington, Jonathan and Crandall, Keith A. and Durbin, Richard and Edwards, Scott V. and Forest, F{\'e}lix and Gilbert, M. Thomas P. and Goldstein, Melissa M. and Grigoriev, Igor V. and Hackett, Kevin J. and Haussler, David and Jarvis, Erich D. and Johnson, Warren E. and Aristides Patrinos and Richards, Stephen and Castilla-Rubio, Juan Carlos and van Sluys, Marie-Anne and Soltis, Pamela S. and Xu, Xun and Yang, Huanming and Zhang, Guojie}
}
