Mid-scale Ri-1 (m1: Da): Designing Scalable Community-driven Infrastructure To Support Biodiversity Genomics (scibg). -the Full Inventory…

Purpose

National Science Foundation awarded $11.9M to The Rockefeller University for Mid-scale ri-1 (m1: da): designing scalable community-driven infrastructure to support biodiversity genomics (scibg). -the full inventory of living beings on earth, underpins human health, economic prosperity, environmental resilience, and national security. the genetic differences found across plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms drives discoveries that advance biotechnology, agriculture, food security, biosecurity, and the development of future medicines and therapeutics, while supporting the rapidly growing u.s. bioeconomy. while other nations and international initiatives have invested in coordinated biodiversity genomics efforts, the united states currently lacks a coordinated, national infrastructure for producing high-quality reference genomes at the scale needed to meet growing scientific demand and remain globally competitive in genomics. this project…