TY - JOUR T1 - Initial data release and announcement of the Fish10K: Fish 10,000 Genomes Project JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/787028 SP - 787028 AU - Guanngyi Fan AU - Yue Song AU - Xiaoyun Huang AU - Liandong Yang AU - Suyu Zhang AU - Mengqi Zhang AU - Xianwei Yang AU - Yue Chang AU - He Zhang AU - Yongxin Li AU - Shanshan Liu AU - Lili Yu AU - Inge Seim AU - Chenguang Feng AU - Wen Wang AU - Kun Wang AU - Jing Wang AU - Xun Xu AU - Huanming Yang AU - Nansheng Chen AU - Xin Liu AU - Shunping He Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/09/30/787028.abstract N2 - With more than 30,000 species, fish are the largest and most 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, an international collaborative project or initiative? aiming to sequence 10,000 representative fish genomes under a systematic context 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. To illustrate, we present the genomes of ten fish species from a cohort of 93 species chosen for technology development. ER -