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A Norwegian Earth BioGenome Project (EBP-Nor) - Sequencing Life for the Future of Life The international Earth Biogenome Project (EBP) was started in 2018 to take advantage of the recent advances in sequencing technology. The vision is grand; the goal is to sequence and assemble high quality reference genomes of all eukaryotic genomes on Earth. EBP-Nor, a national effort in Norway, have been funded by the Research Council of Norway to start with a national effort in Norway. The first phase of the project - funded with 30 M NOK (2021-2024) entails setting up the organisation and infrastructure to do this, and to sequence and assemble a number of selected species. Digital Life Norway has been involved from the very beginning of the development of the first phase of this large national project. EBP-Nor is a partnership of the major universities in Norway (UiO, NMBU, UiB, NTNU, Uni Nord and UiT), the research institute SINTEF, and the non-academic institutions REVOcean, the Life Science Cluster, the Norwegian Environment Agency, and ArcticZymes Technologies with the aim of sequencing, cataloguing and assembling all eukaryotic species occurring in Norway, estimated to 70,000 species. EBP-Nor being a partner project in the Digital Life Norway portfolio. Read more about the project here: https://www.digitallifenorway.org/research/EBPNorway/index.html