This is a continuation of a current storage project that we would like to keep until June 2026 when we believe our project should be finished.
Our team is part of the bioinformatics platform at SciLifeLab (NBIS), and a large part of our work involves working with genome assembly in national and international projects. We assemble complete genomic sequences for organisms where this has not been done before, a task that is beyond most research groups, and we support the research community with this expertise. Our projects involve a huge variety of organisms, including fish, fungi, worms, insects, and mammals.
The main project we are working on right now is Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE). BGE is a European project funded through a call in Horizon Europe. It consists of two streams of which we are involved in European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA). We are funded to assemble genomes of European species, most of which are threatened or found in Biodiversity hotspots. All of the assembled genomes will also be reported in Earth Biogenome Project and will contribute to the global aim of assembling all eukaryote species on Earth.
Due to problems in the lab we are receiving most of the data in the last year of the project and not spread out over all 3.5 years as we were hoping. The project is in its last year, the funding ends in February 2026. This means that we trying to do around three years of work in one year and we are in real need of storage and compute to finish in time. Although the funding ends in February we would like to keep the project until June 2026 to make sure we have time to finish everything and also upload data and results to the correct repositories.