Initiatives like the i5k are creating evermore genome assemblies. These initiatives are resource heavy, and their justifications and economics deserve attention. Scientifically, these initiatives are important, paving the way for cross-species analysis, requiring the building of new computational analysis and tools, and creating other new resources. However, an open question remains of how we quantitively measure the impact of genomes, and by extension these initiatives. This forum article discusses one such method which is to look at the publications about a species over time, however, this method does not show any signal from a published genome, leaving an open question of how to measure impact.

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一个局外人对我们为什么要爬山以及为什么像 i5k 这么重要的项目的看法

像 i5k 这样的计划正在创造更多的基因组组装。这些举措需要大量资源，其理由和经济性值得关注。从科学上讲，这些举措很重要，为跨物种分析铺平了道路，需要构建新的计算分析和工具，并创造其他新资源。然而，一个悬而未决的问题仍然是我们如何量化测量基因组的影响，并通过扩展这些举措。这篇论坛文章讨论了一种这样的方法，即随着时间的推移查看关于某个物种的出版物，但是，这种方法没有显示来自已发表基因组的任何信号，留下了如何衡量影响的悬而未决的问题。