Re: [DIYbio] Comprehensive Genome Project or Feasibility Thereof

To be clear, do you mean "is anyone just trying to generate a firehose of unprocessed sequence data for every living thing known to man"?

On 20 November 2014 13:36:54 GMT+00:00, Cory Geesaman <co...@geesaman.com> wrote:

I've been looking around with little success so figured I'd ask here.  Does anyone know of a genome sequencing project aimed at mapping genomes of all known species?  If none exist, how feasible would it be to get something like it going with modern technologies like Ion Torrent and maybe just refine the technique as you go to get something that could be used for analytics when trying to design a synthetic organism?  The most comprehensive list I've found thus far is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/browse/ and it's pretty lacking (10,816 genomes mapped, only 1,149 in all of Eukaryota, 423 Animals, 9 Reptiles, etc).  Anyone have insight into the operational costs of a project aimed at nothing more than mapping genomes (assume sample collection is free and just limit it to the actual equipment and labwork).

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