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DNA Sequencing at the JGI on PhysicsToday blog

According to the Department of Energy, 200 million base pairs were sequenced for all genome projects in the whole of 1998. By 2003 one large project alone, the DOE’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI), sequenced some 1.5 billion bases in a month. If the march of DNA sequencing had been increasing according to Moore’s law, then,… [Read More]

JGI-Murdoch University rhizobial project

Rhizobia are soil bacteria that can form a symbiotic relationship with legumes such as common domesticated crops such as peas, beans or clovers. These symbiotic bacteria fix atmospheric nitrogen inside nodules formed on the legume roots contributing around 65% of the nitrogen currently used in agricultural production. A joint venture has been established between the… [Read More]

JGI sequencers on GenomeWeb

The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute now uses a collection of next-gen sequencers from a variety of firms, following the phasing out of its Sanger machines. Read more on GenomeWeb. [Read More]

Chlorella project on ScienceDaily

Microalgae are prime targets for research on biofuels. Leading candidates as alternative sources of biodiesel, their culture has the unquestionable advantage, compared to oleaginous land plants, of not competing with cultivated land necessary for human food. Producing fuel from water, sunlight and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere appears as a miracle solution that has fostered… [Read More]

Spanish fungal pipeline project part of CSP 2011 portfolio

The project being coordinated by Mr Pisabarro focuses on a dozen fungi and has a very concrete objective: “We know what genes there are in each fungus, but we do not know how they use them. We asked ourselves how the various fungi employed the arms they have in order to degrade wood and we… [Read More]

Barley selected as a CSP 2011 project

JGI is going to sequence the genome of barley (Hordeum vulgare), a reasonably close relative of wheat, an important crop in its own right, and a monster genome (though not as much of a monster as wheat itself). Barley will be the fourth grass genome sequenced by JGI and the sixth grass genome sequenced in… [Read More]

UC Merced students participate in DOE JGI’s Education program

Students in biology professor Carolin Frank’s lab last year didn’t do “cookbook” lab experiments, following instructions toward an expected result. Instead, in another example of the undergraduate research opportunities available to UC Merced students, they worked on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute project to annotate the genome of a particular type of… [Read More]

HudsonAlpha involved in cacao genome project

A first draft of the cacao genome is complete, a consortium of academic, governmental, and industry scientists announced today. Indiana University Bloomington scientists performed much of the sequencing work, which is described and detailed at http://www.cacaogenomedb.org/, the official website of the Cacao Genome Database project. Despite being led and funded by a private company, Mars… [Read More]

HudsonAlpha involved in cacao genome project

Excerpted from EurekAlert!: “Mockaitis, a biochemist-turned-genomicist, joined the project in early 2009, and quickly set to work with her collaborators to tackle the challenge of sequencing and accurately pasting together the approximately 400 million base pairs of the tree’s genome. Mockaitis’ Cacao Genome Group partners at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Subtropical Horticulture Research Station… [Read More]

Brachypodium genome project on The Warsaw Voice

Brachypodium distachyon, commonly called purple false brome, is a model grass that enables researchers to more easily and thoroughly study temperate cereals, such as wheat, barley, rye and oats. These grasses are one of the most important groups of domesticated plants. The sequencing of the nuclear genome of Brachypodium is a big step towards intensified… [Read More]