Tree of Life
3 July 2025Enter the absorbing world of sponges, the intricate animals that have evolved to inhabit all corners of our Earth’s waterways and oceans. Thanks to a worldwide collaboration of sponge scientists through the Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics project, which is led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, more than 50 published high-quality sponge genomes and counting are now freely accessible to the research community.
8 December 202210.4 min readMeet the software developers, informaticians and bioinformaticians who are helping to sequence the DNA of all life on earth.
8 December 20227.4 min readFind out about Genomes on a Tree (or GoaT) database, which will hold data for the hundreds of thousand of species that are currently having their genomes sequenced for the first time.
9 November 202217.1 min readWe talk to Physilia Chua about her work to monitor biodiversity and make DNA sequencing more accessible.
10 October 20227.8 min readNew genome sequence will boost research into the evolution and population genetics of killer whales
3 October 20226 min readThis free and open event brings together international researchers to share breakthroughs, challenges and advances in how we apply genomics to understanding, utilising and protecting life on Earth.
7 September 20226.4 min readDr Joana Meier, new group leader in the Tree of Life programme, describes her research into how and why groups of animals evolve and diversify into new species over millennia.
