Table 2.

The partners in the Darwin Tree of Life Project

Partner	Roles in project	Location	Lead Investigators
Natural History Museum	Sample collection (especially terrestrial animals); Archiving; DNA barcoding; Analysis	London, UK	Ian Barnes Gavin Broad
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh	Sample collection (plants and lichens); Archiving; DNA barcoding; Analysis	Edinburgh, UK	Michelle Hart Peter Hollingsworth
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew	Sample collection (plants and fungi); Archiving; DNA barcoding; Analysis	London, UK	Paul Kersey Ester Gaya
Marine Biological Association	Sample collection (marine and littoral species); DNA barcoding; Analysis	Plymouth, UK	Nova Mieszkowska Willie Wilson
University of Oxford	Sample collection (Wytham Woods genomic observatory; protists); Analysis	Oxford, UK	Peter Holland Thomas Richards Owen Lewis
Earlham Institute	Sample collection (protists); Data infrastructure; Sequencing (protists); Analysis	Norwich, UK	Neil Hall Rob Davey
Wellcome Sanger Institute	Sample collection; Data infrastructure; Sequencing; Assembly; Analysis	Cambridge, UK	Mark Blaxter Matt Berriman Mara Lawniczak
University of Edinburgh	Sequencing; Assembly; Analysis	Edinburgh, UK	Alex Twyford
University of Cambridge	Assembly; Analysis	Cambridge, UK	Richard Durbin
EMBL-EBI	Databasing; Data infrastructure; Analysis	Cambridge, UK	Paul Flicek Kevin Howe
Connecting Science	Outreach and engagement	Cambridge, UK	Kenneth Skeldon