Fish 10,000 Genomes project

With more than 30,000 species, fish, including bony fish and cartilaginous fish, are the largest and relatively ancient vertebrate group. Despite their critical roles in many ecosystems and human society, fish genomics lags behind work on birds and mammals. This severely limits our understanding of evolution and hinders progress on the conservation and sustainable utilization of fish. Here, we announce the Fish10K project, a portion of the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), aiming to sequence 10,000 representative fish genomes in a systematic fashion within ten years, and officially welcome collaborators to join this effort. As a step towards this goal, we herein describe a feasible workflow for the procurement and storage of biospecimens, and sequencing and assembly strategies.