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The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics

2024; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/s44185-024-00054-6

2731-4243

Ann M. Mc Cartney, Giulio Formenti, Alice Mouton, Diego De Panis, Luísa S Marins, Henrique G. Leitão, Genevieve Diedericks, Joseph Kirangwa, Marco Morselli, Judit Salces-Ortiz, Nuria Escudero, Alessio Iannucci, Chiara Natali, Hannes Svardal, Rosa Fernández, Tim De Pooter, Geert Joris, Mojca Stražišar, Jonathan Wood, Katie E Herron, Ole Seehausen, Phillip C. Watts, Felix Shaw, Robert Davey, Alice Minotto, José M. Fernández, Astrid Böhne, Carla Alegria, Tyler Alioto, Paulo C. Alves, Isabel R. Amorim, Jean‐Marc Aury, Niclas Backström, Petr Baldrián, Laima Baltrūnaitė, Endre Barta, Bertrand Bed’Hom, Caroline Belser, Johannes Bergsten, Laurie Bertrand, Helena Bilandija, Mahesh Panchal, Iliana Bista, Mark Blaxter, Paulo A. V. Borges, Guilherme Borges Dias, Mirte Bosse, Tom Brown, Rémy Bruggmann, Elena Buena‐Atienza, Josephine Burgin, Elena Bužan, Alessia Cariani, Nicolas Casadei, Matteo Chiara, Sérgio Chozas, Fedor Čiampor, Angelica Crottini, Corinne Cruaud, Fernando Cruz, Love Dalén, Alessio De Biase, Javier del Campo, Teo Delić, Alice B. Dennis, Martijn F. L. Derks, Maria Angela Diroma, Mihajla Djan, Simone Duprat, Klara Eleftheriadi, Philine G. D. Feulner, Jean‐François Flot, Giobbe Forni, Bruno Fosso, Pascal Fournier, Christine Fournier‐Chambrillon, Toni Gabaldon, Shilpa Garg, Carmela Gissi, Luca Giupponi, Jèssica Gómez‐Garrido, Josefa González, Miguel L. Grilo, Björn Grüning, Thomas Guérin, Nadège Guiglielmoni, Marta Gut, Marcel P. Haesler, Christoph Hahn, Bálint Halpern, Peter W. Harrison, Julia Heintz, Maris Hindrikson, ‎Jacob Höglund, Kerstin Howe, Graham M. Hughes, Benjamin Istace, J. Mark Cock, Franc Janžekovič, Zophonı́as O. Jónsson, Sagane Joye-Dind, Janne J. Koskimäki, Boris Kryštufek, Justyna Kubacka, Heiner Kuhl, Szilvia Kusza, Karine Labadie, Meri Lähteenaro, Henrik Lantz, Anton Lavrinienko, Lucas Leclère, Ricardo J. Lopes, Ole Madsen, Ghislaine Magdelenat, Giulia Magoga, Tereza Manousaki, Tapio Mappes, João Pedro Marques, Gemma I. Martínez‐Redondo, Florian Maumus, Shane McCarthy, Hendrik‐Jan Megens, José Melo‐Ferreira, Sofia L. Mendes, Matteo Montagna, Joao Moreno, Mai‐Britt Mosbech, Mónica Moura, Zuzana Musilová, Eugene W. Myers, Will Nash, Alexander Nater, Pamela Nicholson, Manuel Niell, Reindert Nijland, Benjamin Noël, Karin Norén, Pedro H. Oliveira, Remi‐André Olsen, Lino Ometto, Rebekah A. Oomen, Stephan Ossowski, Vaidas Palinauskas, Snæbjörn Pálsson, Jerome P. Panibe, Joana Paupério, Martina Pavlek, Emilie Payen, Julia Pawłowska, Jaume Pellicer, Graziano Pesole, João Pimenta, Martin Pippel, Anna Maria Pirttilä, Nikos Poulakakis, Jeena Rajan, Rúben M C Rego, Roberto Resendes, Philipp Resl, Ana Riesgo, Patrik Rödin‐Mörch, André E. R. Soares, Carlos Fernandes, María M. Romeiras, Guilherme Roxo, Lukas Rüber, María José Ruiz‐López, Urmas Saarma, Luís P. da Silva, Manuela Sim‐Sim, Lucile Solér, Vítor C. Sousa, Carla Sousa‐Santos, Alberto Spada, Milomir Stefanović, Viktor Stéger, Josefin Stiller, Matthias Stöck, Torsten H. Struck, Hiranya Sudasinghe, Riikka Tapanainen, Christian Tellgren‐Roth, Helena Trindade, Eugene Tukalenko, Ilenia Urso, Benoît Vacherie, Steven M. Van Belleghem, Kees van Oers, Carlos Vargas-Chávez, Nevena Veličković, Noel Vella, Adriana Vella, Cristiano Vernesi, Sara Vicente, Sara Villa, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Filip Volckaert, Judit Vörös, Patrick Wincker, Sylke Winkler, Claúdio Ciofi, Robert M. Waterhouse, Camila J. Mazzoni,

Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications

A genomic database of all Earth's eukaryotic species could contribute to many scientific discoveries; however, only a tiny fraction of species have genomic information available. In 2018, scientists across the world united under the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), aiming to produce a database of high-quality reference genomes containing all ~1.5 million recognized eukaryotic species. As the European node of the EBP, the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) sought to implement a new decentralised, equitable and inclusive model for producing reference genomes. For this, ERGA launched a Pilot Project establishing the first distributed reference genome production infrastructure and testing it on 98 eukaryotic species from 33 European countries. Here we outline the infrastructure and explore its effectiveness for scaling high-quality reference genome production, whilst considering equity and inclusion. The outcomes and lessons learned provide a solid foundation for ERGA while offering key learnings to other transnational, national genomic resource projects and the EBP.