The DSI Scientific Network is a member-led organization, created in 2020, to help give the research community a voice in ongoing international policy discussions on digital sequence information (DSI). The Network’s mission is to contribute to policymakers’ and other stakeholders’ understanding of DSI, its applications and its contributions to research, biodiversity conservation and public health.

The Earth BioGenome Project is a global network aiming to sequence, catalog and characterize the genomes of all of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of ten years.

The Wellcome Sanger Institute is a world leading genomics research centre. It undertakes large-scale research that forms the foundations of knowledge in biology and medicine. Its findings are used to improve health and to understand life on Earth.

The Global Plant Council is a coalition of organizations representing the plant, crop, agricultural and environmental sciences across the globe. It aims to promote plant science across borders and disciplines.

The World Federation of Culture Collections is a Federation within the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS). It is concerned with the collection, authentication, maintenance and distribution of cultures of microorganisms and cultured cells.

The African Biogenome Project is a coordinated pan-African effort to build capacity and infrastructure for the generation, analysis and deployment of genomics data for the improvement and sustainable use of biodiversity and agriculture across Africa.

The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) is a consortium of research organizations in 40 nations. Its mission is focused on registering all multicellular species and activating a global biosurveillance system before mid-century. To achieve these goals, its member organizations operate core facilities to gather sequence data and develop informatics platforms to curate and analyze the resultant data.

The Bird 10,000 Genomes Project (B10K) is an initiative to generate representative draft genome sequences from all extant bird species.

The Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health supports programs that improve livestock-based livelihoods in the tropics. It is a strategic alliance of the International Livestock Research Institute, the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh, and Scotland’s Rural College.

The Tara Ocean Foundation is developing innovative and original open ocean science. It uses scientific expertise to raise awareness and educate young people and the public in general, to mobilize political decision makers at the highest level and to enable developing countries to access this new knowledge about the Ocean.

The Global Biodata Coalition is a forum for research funders to better coordinate and share approaches for the efficient management and growth of biodata resources worldwide. It aims to stabilize and ensure sustainable financial support for the global biodata infrastructure.

The Global Genome Biodiversity Network aims to foster collaborations among biodiversity repositories in order to ensure quality standards, improve best practices, secure interoperability, and harmonize exchange of material in accordance with national and international legislation and conventions.

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is an intergovernmental research organization funded by over 20 member states. It maintains the world’s most comprehensive range of freely available and up-to-date molecular data resources.

The China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) is a non-profit public foundation and a social legal entity dedicated to biodiversity conservation and green development.

The European Virus Archive (EVAg) is an international group of 25 laboratories, including 16 EU member state institutions and 9 non-EU institutions, that represent an extensive range of virological disciplines.

The LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics sequences genomes across the tree of life to study the genetic basis of biological diversity and to make the data accessible for addressing societal knowledge demands.

Created in 1666, the French Académie des sciences is an independent assembly of scientists that conducts reflections on the political, ethical and societal issues raised by current and future scientific questions. Its work aims to provide a framework of expertise, advice and warning, on which public policies can be based, and more broadly to enlighten the debates and choices of our society.

The China National GeneBank (CNGB) is a world leading integrated research infrastructure which has the capacity for preserving plant, animal, microbial and human samples. In addition, its high-throughput sequencing center generates petabytes of genomic data annually. Last, its scientific database (CNGBdb) helps researchers to easily archive and analyze genetic data.

The French Alliance for Environmental Research (AllEnvi) pools and promotes the whole expertise of French public research organizations, universities and grandes écoles, with a community of nearly 20,000 scientists, with the aim of identifying the future challenges and research priorities in the field of Environmental Sciences. AllEnvi gathers multiple types of expertise, hence ensuring a systemic, transverse, multidisciplinary approach to environmental issues in regard of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The European Culture Collections’ Organisation (ECCO) was established in 1981. The aim of the organisation is to promote collaboration and exchange of ideas and information about all aspects of culture collection activity. ECCO meetings are held annually as a forum for discussion and innovation on the future development of member collection activities.

As the core research and development institute of BGI Group, BGI-Research aims to promote study of the life sciences, and the development of biotechnology and human health. It carries out research on key and cutting-edge issues in technology and science, and participates in many international genome projects.

The 10,000 Plant Genomes Project (tenKP or 10KP) aims to sequence over 10,000 genomes representing every major clade of plants and eukaryotic microbes. It is a genome project led by BGI-Research and China National Gene Bank (CNGB), with global collaborative efforts to assemble plant genomes and share the plant genome data.

The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) is a non-profit foundation and member of the Leibniz Association, dedicated to basic and application-oriented research on crop plants. The institute hosts one of the world’s largest collections of plant germplasm, and conducts research directed towards an efficient and sustainable supply of food, energy and raw materials and thus towards meeting global challenges.

The Verband Botanisher Gärten represents more than 90 botanical gardens in Germany and neighboring countries, and is one of the largest conglomerates of botanical living collections worldwide. The Verband is active in conservation, public outreach, collection management and exchange, and thus has a serious interest in ensuring that its members’ collections remain useful for research, conservation and development.

The BiodivOc Key Challenge, financed by the Occitanie regional council, aims to develop research projects that explore the dynamics, resilience and management of biodiversity and ecosystems subject to human-induced environmental pressures.

The Scientific Board of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Scientific Board of the Institute of Ecology and Environment (INEE) ensure the consistency of the CNRS’ and INEE’s scientific policies in coordination with other national scientific advisory bodies and the institutes’ directors. The CNRS is a world-leading interdisciplinary public research organisation, whose scientists explore the living world, matter, the Universe, and the functioning of human societies in order to meet the major challenges of today and tomorrow. The Institute of Ecology and Environment (INEE) is a member institute of the CNRS whose mission is to develop and coordinate research in the fields of ecology and the environment, including biodiversity and human-environment interactions.

The Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) is a non-profit foundation, which carries out basic and applied research on the chemical diversity, the biosynthesis, the biological roles, and the mechanisms of action of plant and fungal natural products, with an emphasis on specialized metabolites and signaling molecules. The gained knowledge paves the way for sustainable crop production, innovative biotechnology, and drug development to improve the nutrition and health of humans, animals, and plants.

The Boyce Thompson Institute is a non-profit institute that carries out basic research on plant pathology, plant breeding, plant diversity, plant biotechnology, and plant metabolites. BTI translates basic research into agricultural applications. We also contribute to the education and training of future generations of scientists.