一个由国际科学家小组提出了一个大规模的科学项目，来对这个星球上所有已知的真核生物的基因组进行测序、编目和分析，研究人员说这项工作需要10年，花费47亿美元，需要超过200兆字节的数字存储容量。真核生物包括除细菌和古细菌外的所有有机体。据估计，地球上有大约10-15万种真核生物。

Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence genomes of 1.5 million species

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180423155054.htm

1. Harris A. Lewin, Gene E. Robinson, W. John Kress, William J. Baker, Jonathan Coddington, Keith A. Crandall, Richard Durbin, Scott V. Edwards, Félix Forest, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Melissa M. Goldstein, Igor V. Grigoriev, Kevin J. Hackett, David Haussler, Erich D. Jarvis, Warren E. Johnson, Aristides Patrinos, Stephen Richards, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Marie-Anne van Sluys, Pamela S. Soltis, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Guojie Zhang. Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018; 201720115 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1720115115