What should be the next genome sequenced?

What should be the next genome sequenced? Olivia Judson has turned this question into an analog of Fantasy Baseball. Submit your suggestions to her/the world at The Fantasy Genome Project – Olivia Judson Blog – NYTimes.com

Or submit them here. For microbes it is so cheap that there is no point in doing this type of competition (e.g., for a bacterial isolate it would cost ~ 1-2000$$$ to do the shotgun sequencing for most species and then if you want to finish it would cost more, but still not very much)

My suggestion for a bigger genome to do that would be fun, interesting and important — the blue whale. Biggest animal on the planet. Ever. Just must have its genome.

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Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis

16 thoughts on “What should be the next genome sequenced?”

  16. Amongst the eukaryotes: Axolotl. It's weird, regenerative and endangered, plus it's a massive genome. Or for the same price a handful of picoeukaryotes?

    Amongst the prokaryotes: Leisingera methylohalidivorans strain MB2. It once drove me round the bend and it being sequenced would be petty revenge.

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