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IMG v4 announcement in GenomeWeb

The Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute has released a fourth version of the Integrated Microbial Genomes system, which serves as a community resource for analyzing and annotating genome and metagenome datasets….IMG currently contains 11,753 total genomes, plasmids and genome fragments; 2,075 metagenome samples; and 2,372 genomes and 804 metagenome samples in IMG/ER and IMG/M-ER,… [Read More]

Button mushroom genome in WalesOnline

As part of an international collaboration, Swansea University researchers have found the soft round fungus (Agaricus bisporus) plays a key part in the carbon cycle which makes the planet habitable.And, bizarrely, it could even one day form the basis of new plastics and bio-oils. Read more at WalesOnline [Read More]

Button mushroom release from the University of Bristol

new work shows how its genes are actually deployed not only in leaf decay but also wood decay and in the development of fruiting bodies (the above ground part of the mushroom harvested for food). The work also suggests how such processes have major implications for forest carbon management. The analysis of the inner workings of… [Read More]

Berkeley Lab Seeking Licensees in GenomeWeb

“This is a general method to get DNA out from any kind of sample, but with higher sensitivity, we think, than current methods, and more … versatility in terms of product models,” Youn-Hi Woo, a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab and one of the method’s inventors, told PCR Insider this week.”  Read more on GenomeWeb (subscription may… [Read More]

32 papers in one day – ENCODE project’s first reports

The papers published Wednesday recount more than 1,600 experiments involving more than 180 different cell types, said Richard Myers, president of the nonprofit HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Ala.“They have shown how the millions of switches in the human genome determine which proteins in the body are going to be made, how they will work together, and how… [Read More]

Arabidopsis root microbiome project: release from University of Queensland

Led by the University of North Carolina and the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, the research studied the microbiome in soil around the roots of more than 600 Arabidopsis thaliana plants. The team, which included The University of Queensland Professor Philip Hugenholtz, investigated how the microbiome helps shuttle nutrients and information into and out… [Read More]

Arabidopsis root microbiome project in GenomeWeb Daily News

“In the same way that microbes play critical roles in and around our own bodies, we are adopting this concept of host-associated metagenomics in plant genomics as well, as it will ultimately lead to predictive interventions that will increase plant health and productivity, disease resistance, and carbon capture,” co-author Susannah Tringe, who heads the metagenome… [Read More]

Revisiting the importance of studying the microbes in termite guts

According to Leadbetter, the termite holds the key to unlocking all of this potential. But understanding how to do it won’t be easy.People have enlisted the help of microbes before, but never with this degree of complexity. “For 6,000 years,” he said, “we’ve been making beer, wine and bread using yeast,” which is a single-cell… [Read More]

Fungal genomics and coal formation in The Green Optimistic

White rot fungi from the class of fungi known as Agaricomycetes are capable of degrading the polymer lignin. Lignin is found in plant tissues and is largely responsible for the rigid structure of plant cell walls. The researchers postulated that fungal degradation of lignin caused plant matter to be broken down into its basic components and… [Read More]

Fungal genomics and coal formation in Clean Technica

In an ironic twist, genomics researchers have stumbled upon an incredible discovery – the same ancestral fungus that ended coal formation millennia ago may now be able to boost biofuel and bioenergy production. Read more at Clean Technica [Read More]