May 9, 2018
Dr. Stephen Richards, associate professor at the Baylor Collge of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, joined Craig Cohen on Houston Public Media's "Houston Matters" program to discuss the Earth BioGenome Project, an initative to sequence all 1.5 million eukaryote species on Earth.
"It's a big project; there's going to be a lot of data," said Richards regarding the proposed 10-year international undertaking. "We think now because the cost of sequencing has dropped so much that the overall cost to do this on planet Earth would be about the same or even less than it was to do the human genome the first time."