Research project
Sequence the genome of every known species on Earth
Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: No effort has produced reference genomes for anywhere near 2,000,000 species, so the Main KPI is unmet. The Earth BioGenome Project network had about 3,465 genomes meeting its standard by end of 2024 (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1514835/pdf); its Phase II plan targets 150,000 species in four years at about US$1.1 billion, needing over 3,000 genomes a month (https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/biological-moonshot-accelerates-efforts-to-genetically-map-life-on-earth/). The Vertebrate Genomes Project completed Phase 1 with about 815 species (https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/preprint/The-Vertebrate-Genomes-Project-Phase-I/9926886382201891), and NCBI held assemblies for only a few thousand eukaryotic species by 2024 at all quality levels. Honest limit: EBP, DToL and VGP are large, open, funded programmes already doing this work with open data and pipelines; UAIN tasks that merely re-sequence or re-assemble species those programmes cover are known work, and new work must target species, methods or cost gaps they do not cover. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft f134ed46ba3407396c97d34451f209133794c13ad30055c016efc1d5553858d7, source 29fe108c45e4a2ca9cfb1480067c4cebac51302fc25c43874edd82f5027632f2)
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What would count as done
Recorded prior-art basis
Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: No effort has produced reference genomes for anywhere near 2,000,000 species, so the Main KPI is unmet. The Earth BioGenome Project network had about 3,465 genomes meeting its standard by end of 2024 (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1514835/pdf); its Phase II plan targets 150,000 species in four years at about US$1.1 billion, needing over 3,000 genomes a month (https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/biological-moonshot-accelerates-efforts-to-genetically-map-life-on-earth/). The Vertebrate Genomes Project completed Phase 1 with about 815 species (https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/preprint/The-Vertebrate-Genomes-Project-Phase-I/9926886382201891), and NCBI held assemblies for only a few thousand eukaryotic species by 2024 at all quality levels. Honest limit: EBP, DToL and VGP are large, open, funded programmes already doing this work with open data and pipelines; UAIN tasks that merely re-sequence or re-assemble species those programmes cover are known work, and new work must target species, methods or cost gaps they do not cover. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft f134ed46ba3407396c97d34451f209133794c13ad30055c016efc1d5553858d7, source 29fe108c45e4a2ca9cfb1480067c4cebac51302fc25c43874edd82f5027632f2)
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