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GEBA Project: “Beyond Darwin’s Wildest Dreams”

Recently, Eisen and his colleagues unveiled a pilot project that they hope will help the community make the most of existing microbial genome data with a phylogeny-driven resource called the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea at the Joint Genome Institute. Currently available genomic resources for microbes are from a very narrow phylogenetic distribution of… [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 7th Space Interactive

The Earth is estimated to have about a nonillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) microbes in, on, around, and under it, comprised of an unknown but very large number of distinct species. Despite the widespread availability of microbial genome data—close to 2,000 microbes have been and are being decoded to date—a vast unknown realm awaits scientists intent on exploring… [Read More]

GEBA project in DOE Office of Science’s National Impact series

Think of phylogenetic diversity as all of the separate branches growing from the main “trunk” of the Tree of Life.  “Most of these separate branches within the bacteria and archaea have not yet been sampled in regard to genome sequencing” said Eisen. To expand the genomic sampling of bacterial and microbial diversity, Eisen and others… [Read More]

GEBA project on UC Newsroom

Genome scientists from the U.S. and Germany have assembled the first pages of a comprehensive encyclopedia of genomes of all the microbes on Earth. The results, published Dec. 24 in the journal Nature, will help biologists find new genes and fill out the branches of the “Tree of Life.”…. The project was funded primarily by… [Read More]

GEBA project on e! Science News

Despite the multitudes of microbes that reside on earth, our knowledge of them is quite limited. Of the estimated nonillion [10 to the 30th power] that exist, scientists have or are in the process of decoding 2,000 microbial genomes,  which means there is a vast unknown realm awaiting those researchers intent on exploring microorganisms that… [Read More]