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Poplar bacteria project on EurekAlert

In the current study — through genome sequencing performed at DOE’s Joint Genome Institute, manual genome annotation in collaboration with Brookhaven biologist Sebastien Monchy, and metabolic analyses performed at the University of South Carolina in collaboration with Brookhaven plant scientist Lee Newman — the scientists identified an extended set of genes that help Enterobacter (sp…. [Read More]

Poplar bacteria project on Physorg

The Brookhaven team has been studying a species of bacteria isolated from the roots of poplar trees. “Poplar is a model species for biofuel production, in part because of its ability to grow on marginal soils unsuitable for food crops,” said scientist Daniel (Niels) van der Lelie, who leads the research program. Previous studies by… [Read More]

Sulcia single-cell genome project in GenomeWeb

In PLoS One this week, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute and the University of Arizona report the completed sequence of Candidatus Sulcia meulleri, obtained from an uncultured single cell.  Read more on GenomeWeb. [Read More]

Hydra genome project on GenomeWeb

In a paper appearing in the online version of Nature yesterday, an international research team led by investigators at US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, the J. Craig Venter Institute, the University of Heidelberg, and the University of California reported that they have sequenced the genome of the Hydra magnipapillata, a freshwater cnidarian. The… [Read More]

Hydra genome project in PRNewswire

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute, along with more than 70 other researchers from around the world, have sequenced and analyzed the genome of Hydra magnipapillata, a fresh water member of the cnidaria —  stinging animals that include jellyfish, sea anemones and corals. The research, published in the March 14 edition of Nature, was… [Read More]

JGI to get PacBio machine on Forbes

PacBio’s DNA-sequencing technology generated a huge amount of excitement when it was described in a cover article in Science because it could someday make it possible to sequence an entire genome in minutes for less than $1,000. The first machines now being rolled out are only a step on the way to this goal, and… [Read More]

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]