Safeguarding African biodiversity through genomics

The African BioGenome Project aims to safeguard biodiversity and build bioinformatics capacity across Africa

From left to right; a giraffe, monkey, elephant, lion, zebra, and bird with DNA double helix in the background. — African biodiversity. Credit: Karen Arnott/EMBL

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Africa: sequence 100,000 species to safeguard biodiversity

Ebenezer T.E., et al.

Nature 15 March 2022

10.1038/d41586-022-00712-4

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Tags: biodiversity, bioinformatics, data sharing, embl-ebi, open access, open data, open science,

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