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Soybean genome on redOrbit

Jeremy Schmutz, the study’s first author and a DOE JGI scientist at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Alabama, said that the soybean sequencing was the largest plant project done to date at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. “It also happens to be the largest plant that’s ever been sequenced by the whole genome shotgun… [Read More]

Soybean sequence on Agence France Presse

Scientists on Wednesday unveiled the genome of the soybean, saying it was an achievement that should deepen understanding of one of the world’s most important crops, help to boost yields and defend the plant against pests. The study, published by the British weekly science journal Nature, provides a springboard for research into soy’s DNA structure… [Read More]

Soybean sequence on UC Newsroom

Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. The sequence and its analysis appear in the Jan. 14 edition of the journal Nature. The research team comprised 18 institutions, including the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute… [Read More]

GEBA project on Microbe World

The Joint Genome Institute at the Energy Department has started what it calls a “genomic encyclopedia,” a collection of genomes from diverse microbes. Using an evolutionary approach that differs in strategy from how scientists originally chose organisms for sequencing, researchers hope to discover many new kinds of genes. According the New York Times, “the genomic… [Read More]

GEBA project on OpenHelix

Just caught the announcement via GenomeWeb that the GEBA project paper has been published with 53 bacterial genomes (see Nature for a summary article that is available, and the paper itself is here).  They deliver 53 bacteria and 3 archaea. GEBA is the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea.  They developed a strategy to select… [Read More]

GEBA project on The Davis Enterprise

With the first volume of a planned encyclopedia of genomes of all the planet’s microbes, UC Davis’ Jonathan Eisen and his American and German colleagues hope to begin to change how microbes are studied. With a sampling of the diversity with 56 genomes in today’s edition of the journal Nature, they argue for research that’s… [Read More]

GEBA project on Ars Technica

We’ve tended to measure our success with sequencing genomes in terms of our ability to sequence the billions of bases in the human genome. But the progress has made completing the genomes of bacteria, which are typically a thousand times smaller, relatively trivial. For these organisms, we actually have the luxury of being able to… [Read More]

GEBA project on TerraDaily

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 on Green Car Congress

Genome researchers from the US and Germany have published the initial “volume” of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA)—an analysis of the first 56 genomes sequenced from the two domains. The paper appeared in the 24 December edition of the journal Nature. Read more on Green Car Congress. [Read More]

GEBA project on Scientific Blogging

In hopes of exploring that realm and expanding our understanding of microbes, a team from the the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) have released the first volume of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA), an analysis of the first 56 genomes representing two of the three domains of the tree… [Read More]