to sequence the genomes of all life in the british isles. today, scientists are focusing on marine worms, known as polychaetes. it s a big task, with hundreds and hundreds of species. and we ve got over 100 now, i think 120 odd species of polycha etes collected. it seems like a lot, but, really, it sjust the beginning. the plan is to sequence the dna of every plant, animaland fungi in britain and ireland. that s about 70,000 species. and some are surprising. there is a type of microalgae has 200 billion letters of dna. that s more than 60 times bigger than the human genome. and the scientists plan to do this all by 2030. the dna extraction is being carried out at the wellcome sanger institute. the human genome was sequenced here two decades ago. that took years. but now a species can be completed in a few days. when the human genome
were scooped up just off the coast of plymouth. so, you ve got two worms here. this one, it s almost made these overlapping scales of kind of sandy shell. they re being collected for an ambitious new project, to sequence the genomes of all life in the british isles. today, scientists are focusing on marine worms, known as polychaetes. it s a big task, with hundreds and hundreds of species. and we ve got over 100 now, i think 120 odd species of polycha etes collected. it seems like a lot, but, really, it sjust the beginning. the plan is to sequence the dna of every plant, animaland fungi in britain and ireland. that s about 70,000 species. and some are surprising. there is a type of microalgae has 200 billion letters of dna. that s more than 60 times bigger than the human genome. and the scientists plan to do this all by 2030. the dna extraction
it seems like a lot, but, really, it sjust the beginning. the plan is to sequence the dna of every plant, animaland fungi in britain and ireland. that s about 70,000 species. and some are surprising. there is a type of microalgae has 200 billion letters of dna. that s more than 60 times bigger than the human genome. and the scientists plan to do this all by 2030. the dna extraction is being carried out at the wellcome sanger institute. the human genome was sequenced here two decades ago. that took years. but now a species can be completed in a few days. when the human genome was sequenced, it changed the way we do human biology forever. it really transformed how we see ourselves, and how we work with our health and illness. 0ne genome that is now complete belongs to the badger. in 0xfordshire, as dusk falls, a family emerges
it seems like a lot, but, really, it sjust the beginning. the plan is to sequence the dna of every plant, animaland fungi in britain and ireland. that s about 70,000 species. and some are surprising. there is a type of microalgae has 200 billion letters of dna. that s more than 60 times bigger than the human genome. and the scientists plan to do this all by 2030. the dna extraction is being carried out at the wellcome sanger institute. the human genome was sequenced here two decades ago. that took years. but now a species can be completed in a few days. when the human genome was sequenced, it changed the way we do human biology forever. it really transformed how we see ourselves, and how we work with our health and illness. and we want to make that possible for all of biology. so we want everybody working on any species, or any group of species, anywhere in the world,
has 200 billion letters of dna. that s more than 60 times bigger than the human genome. and the scientists plan to do this all by 2030. the dna extraction is being carried out at the wellcome sanger institute. the human genome was sequenced here two decades ago. that took years but now a species can be completed in a few days. when the human genome was sequenced, it changed the way we do human biology for ever. it s really transformed how we see ourselves, how we work with our health and illness. we want to make that possible for all of biology. so we want everybody working on any species, or any group of species anywhere in the world able to have this ultimate foundation. one genome that is now complete belongs to the badger. in oxfordshire, as dusk falls, a family emerges from their sett. scientists say, having their detailed genetic information is vital.