“…Omics data can support the conservation of ecosystems and the sustainable use of marine resources (for example Bowser et al, 2020;Turunen et al, 2021), as well as the monitoring of wild animal populations such as fish (Andruszkiewicz et al, 2017) or mammals (Suarez-Bregua et al, 2022). In addition, omics data can be integrated into ecosystem models to develop innovative investigations in food security (for example Grützke et al, 2019;Sequino et al, 2022), biodiscovery (for example Mahapatra et al, 2020;Shaaban et al, 2022), novel treatments in biofuels (Sartaj et al, 2022) and bioremediation (Rodrıǵuez et al, 2022), and other services such as disease detection in the environment (Wurtzer et al, 2022) or clinical diagnostics (Forbes et al, 2017). In the last decade, omics methods have matured into viable solutions to support efficient biodiversity observation from microbes to whales, reorienting our understanding of ecology and evolution, as well as the ways humans are embedded in the physical world (Canonico et al, 2019;Rodrıǵuez-Ezpeleta et al, 2021).…”