Genome 10K Project

To understand how complex animal life evolved through changes in DNA and use this knowledge to become better stewards of the planet

The Genome 10K project: Assembling a "Noah's Ark" of genomic data to save dying species.

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Accomplishments

Multiple publications from the Avian Phylogenomics Project.

The China National Genebank of BGI launched the Fish T1K project in November 2013 to sequence 1,000 fish transcriptomes.

The i5K initiative to sequence 5,000 insect genomes began in March 2011—inspired partly by G10K.

The Genome 10K database catalogs specimens from more than 16,000 vertebrate species. The BGI-G10K and Public Species and status lists.

The G10K inaugural publication in the Journal of Heredity, Nov 4, 2009, was the most-cited article published that year and is currently the third most-downloaded article in JOH's history.