Genome sequencing projects were long confined to biomedical model organisms and
required the concerted effort of large consortia. Rapid progress in high‐throughput …

Eukaryotic genome sequencing and de novo assembly, once the exclusive domain of well-
funded international consortia, have become increasingly affordable, thus fitting the budgets …

Progress in genome sequencing now enables the large-scale generation of reference
genomes. Various international initiatives aim to generate reference genomes representing …

Techniques involving whole‐genome sequencing and whole‐population sequencing
(metagenomics) are beginning to revolutionize the study of ecology and evolution. This …

The quality of genome assemblies has improved rapidly in recent years due to continual
advances in sequencing technology, assembly approaches, and quality control. In the field …

Whole‐genome resequencing (WGR) is a powerful method for addressing fundamental
evolutionary biology questions that have not been fully resolved using traditional methods …

In less than 25 y, the field of animal genome science has transformed from a discipline
seeking its first glimpses into genome sequences across the Tree of Life to a global …

The falling cost of genome sequencing is having a marked impact on the research
community with respect to which genomes are sequenced and how and where they are …

The goals of the Earth Biogenome Project—to sequence the genomes of all eukaryotic life
on earth—are as daunting as they are ambitious. The Darwin Tree of Life Project was …

New sequencing technology has dramatically altered the landscape of whole-genome
sequencing, allowing scientists to initiate numerous projects to decode the genomes of …