The entire Earth Biogenome Project will cost less in today's dollars than the human genome project, which was worth about US$3 billion in total.
Well, the whole point of the Earth Biogenome Project is to exploit the variation between species to make comparisons, and also to capture remarkable innovations in outliers.There are currently 44 affiliated institutions in 22 countries working on the Earth Biogenome Project.There are also 49 affiliated projects, including enormous projects such as the California Conservation Genomics Project, the Bird 10,000 Genomes Project and UK's Darwin Tree of Life Project, as well as many projects on particular groups such as bats and butterflies.