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It\u2019s a collaboration between biodiversity, genomics and analysis partners that hopes to transform biology, conservation and biotechnology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EMBL-EBI is contributing its expertise in data coordination and genomic data analysis to annotate the diverse array of genomes, and build the <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.darwintreeoflife.org\/\">DToL data portal<\/a> where all the genomes sequenced by the project will be made freely and openly available. Annotations of repeats and genes for each species along with comparative analyses will also be accessible through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensembl.org\/index.html?redirect=no\">EMBL-EBI\u2019s Ensembl genome browser<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DToL is part of a larger ambition \u2013 the Earth BioGenome Project \u2013 which aims to sequence all species on Earth. Exploring the genomes of all known species would give an unprecedented insight into how life on Earth evolved. 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