"Sequencing the World" and how to pay for it

The Economist has a nice summary of the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) - which would like to sequence all 1.5m known eukaryote species within a decade - and the Amazon Bank of Codes -an initiative to generate an open library of the Amazon’s biological/sequence data. Their proponents are using the current World Economic Forum’s meeting at Davos to drum up support and, most importantly, money money money. BGI suggests that the cost of sequencing would be ~$100 / genome. A bargain!

https://www.economist.com/news/21735546-how-map-dna-all-known-plants-and-animal-species-earth-sequencing