Companies
Wellcome Sanger
the Wellcome Sanger Institute-led DtL project aims to sequence all roughly 70,000 eukaryotic species of Britain and Ireland, running one of the world's highest-throughput de novo assembly pipelines.
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Coverage
| CN | EU | IN | US | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| diagnostics-medtech | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ecosystem-restoration | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
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Verifiable facts
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Affiliation | The Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project is a partnership led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, involving the Earlham Institute, EMBL-EBI, the Marine Biological Association, the Natural History Museum in London, the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, CABI, the Institute of Zoology, and the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and Dublin. | darwintreeoflife.org · sanger.ac.uk |
| Research focus | Generating high-quality reference genomes for all roughly 70,000 eukaryotic species in Britain and Ireland. | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · darwintreeoflife.org · sanger.ac.uk |
| Facility | Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. | seo-consultant.co · darwintreeoflife.org · sanger.ac.uk |
| Grant | The project is supported by funding from Wellcome, with an estimated initial cost of approximately £100 million for the first five years. | sanger.ac.uk |
| Publications | As of the 2023-24 reporting period, the Tree of Life Programme published 482 Genome Notes, representing 61% year-on-year growth. In 2023-24, it contributed over 60% of all global submissions of high-quality, chromosomally complete genomes. | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · sanger.ac.uk |
| Principal staff | Matthew Hurles (Director, Wellcome Sanger Institute); Head of the Tree of Life Programme. | sanger.ac.uk |
| Headcount | The Wellcome Sanger Institute employs multidisciplinary teams; it currently employs 116 postdocs (as of the 2024-25 financial year). The faculty size is comparatively small, numbering between 25 and 40 members. | sanger.ac.uk |
Independent sources: darwintreeoflife.org · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · sanger.ac.uk · seo-consultant.co
Technologies
| Name | Cluster | Risk | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biodiversity genomics | ecosystem-restoration | Low | → |
| Genomic pathogen surveillance (service) | diagnostics-medtech | Medium | → |
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