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GEBA project featured on ScienceDaily

Two thousand years after Pliny the Elder compiled one of the earliest surviving encyclopedic works, and in the spirit of his goal of providing “light to the obscure,” the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has published the initial “volume” of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA). Presenting a provocative glimpse… [Read More]

GEBA project featured in NYTimes

If you want to appreciate the diversity of life on earth, you will need a microscope…. Yet scientists still know very little about our microbial planet. The genomes of only about 1,000 species of microbes have been sequenced. That leaves 99.99999 percent to go. Making matters worse, the genomes scientists have sequenced so far are… [Read More]

DOE JGI early tester of 454’s benchtop sequencer on Y!Finance

454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG), announced today at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in Kissimmee, Florida a series of revolutionary developments which significantly expand the company’s high-throughput sequencing portfolio. Addressing the growing demand for next-generation sequencing data in everyday biological and clinical research, the company revealed the new GS Junior… [Read More]

DOE JGI early tester of 454’s benchtop sequencer on PharmaLive

The company announced plans to initiate an early access program for development of the next set of performance improvements to the Genome Sequencer FLX System, which will double the read length of the current GS FLX Titanium Kits and expect to contain reads up to 1,000 bp. The DOE Joint Genome Institute will be the… [Read More]

Jonathan Eisen, GEBA project in Nature

“The broad brush strokes of microbial diversity are not adequately represented in that first thousand,” says Stephen Giovannoni, a microbiologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. “It’s absolutely important that we sequence more.” Enter the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea, a project spearheaded by the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in… [Read More]

Archael transcriptome map on GenomeWeb

In a collaboration between scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Joint BioEnergy Institute, and the Joint Genome Institute, they have constructed a single-base resolution transcriptome map of Sulfolobus solfataricus P2, a well-studied model archaeal organism. More at GenomeWeb. [Read More]

Cassava research on InSequence

Recently, UA researchers won a $1.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead an international consortium that is developing a genome variation database for cassava that aims to provide breeding tools to farmers for improving the plant and its disease resistance. The genome of the cassava, or Manihot esculenta, was sequenced… [Read More]

Cassava research on The Medical News

In response to the urgency of this threat, and building upon the newly available cassava genome sequence, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $1.3 million grant to University of Arizona researchers who will lead an international consortium to develop a genome variation database that will provide breeding tools to aid farmers in… [Read More]

Cassava research on Checkbiotech

A $1.3 Million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund the next phase of research that is critical to global food security. A team of academic, government and industry researchers has completed a first draft of the cassava (Manihot esculenta) genome. The project is an important first step in accelerating the pace of… [Read More]