EBP Phase II Meeting Landing Page

Welcome to the EBP Phase II meeting. The organizers have prepared a simple information packet to help all participants quickly access key publications, EBP reports, and relevant standards. The goal of the meeting is to identify the changes and improvements needed for EBP to exponentially scale global biodiversity genome production.

 

Included in this packet are:

  1. Proposed Discussion Topics and Guiding Questions

  2. Estimated Cost per Genome Calculation (please review for your project and complete by May 1st)

  3. 2025-2026 EBP Publications Summaries and Links

    1. Blaxter et al., 2025 – The Earth BioGenome Project Phase II: Illuminating the eukaryotic Tree of Life

    2. Howard et al. 2025 – On the path to reference genomes for all biodiversity: laboratory protocols and lessons learned from processing over 2,000 species in the Sanger Tree of Life

    3. Lawniczak et al. 2025 – EBP best-practice sample collection and processing guidance

  4. Committee Report Summaries for Review

    1. EBP Sequencing and Assembly Reports (v 7)

    2. EBP Sequencing and Assembly recommendations (v 4)

    3. EBP IT and informatics Subcommittee Standards (ver. 2.3)

For global efforts such as the EBP, sustainability depends on creating a centralized, long-term funding framework — ideally through public–private partnerships that pool resources across nations, agencies, and foundations. This model would enable stable infrastructure, data standards, and equitable access to sequencing capacity worldwide.

Establishing such a framework is challenging, but emerging initiatives in open data, digital biology, and global biodiversity policy create real opportunities. With coordinated leadership and international cooperation, sustainable, large-scale genome sequencing is within reach.