Overview

• The plan, published in Frontiers in Science, sets a pace of about 3,000 new genomes per month to cover half of all known genera.
• EBP will collect 300,000 samples, prioritizing species linked to ecosystem health, food security, conservation, pandemic control, and community needs.
• Portable gBox shipping‑container labs are proposed to expand local sequencing in biodiversity‑rich, remote regions with leadership from Indigenous and Global South scientists.
• Phase II is budgeted at $1.1 billion, including a $0.5 billion Foundational Impact Fund for training and infrastructure, with a 10‑year total cost estimate of $4.42 billion to sequence 1.67 million named species.
• By the end of 2024, EBP-affiliated projects had produced 3,465 genomes, with throughput roughly 10 times faster than at launch and sequencing about eight times cheaper than a few years ago.