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Fungal Genomics blog re DOE JGI User Meeting

Personally, my favorite talk at the last 6th Annual DOE JGI Users Meeting at Walnut Creek was Rob Knight‘s contribution on ‘Spatially and Temporally Resolved Studies of the Human Microbiome‘. Rob was creative and integrative. Displaying the biogeography of bacterial communities on the human body using UniFrac and QUIME was astounding. Read more at the… [Read More]

Eisen blogs Twitter wrap-up of the DOE JGI User Meeting

Off to another meeting so don’t have time to write up details of the JGI User Meeting that just ended.  But I am posting my tweets and some related tweets here.  Also, apparently videos of the talks will be available soon. Will try to clean up the style of the posts ASAP but on the… [Read More]

Tasmanian devils at DOE JGI User Meeting in GenomeWeb

As part of the large-scale conservation effort he calls “Project Ark,” Schuster and his team intend to genotype hundreds of Tasmanian devils, he told attendees of the sixth annual Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute User Meeting held in Walnut Creek, Calif., this week. To date, he said, devil tumor facial disease does not seem… [Read More]

DOE JGI as ‘Genomics Foundry’ in GenomeWeb

The Joint Genome Institute plans to transition from a sequencing center to a “genomic foundry” — a one-stop shop for large-scale functional annotation, single-cell genomics and transcriptomics, high-throughput custom sample prep, and analysis expertise, among other proposed services, said Eddy Rubin at JGI’s sixth annual User Meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif. Ultimately, Rubin said, he… [Read More]

Earth Microbiome Project in Sacramento Bee

To understand microbes (Bacterial, Archaeal, Eukaryal and Viral) in terms of whom they are and what they do is the challenge of microbial ecology. The EMP presents a revolution in how this problem is tackled and defines both questions and potential suite of tools to provide answers.  Key participants in this unprecedented project include BGI,… [Read More]

Earth Microbiome Project in GenomeWeb

BGI will provide a range of services and support for the Earth Microbiome Project, an effort to sample, sequence, and analyze microbial communities from all over the globe. The multi-disciplinary EMP effort, the largest sequencing project yet undertaken, will conduct metagenomics studies of 200,000 samples of microbes from soil, air, sea, and freshwater systems from… [Read More]

Aureococcus genome project in Knoxville News Sentinel

The research team’s study focused on one particular strand of harmful algal blooms: Aureococcus anophagefferens. Originally, the team thought this strand would be found in the deep oceans, but the researchers discovered instead that it actually thrived in the human-affected conditions of the coastal regions. Read more at knoxnews.com [Read More]

Daphnia pulex project on LANL News Center

The journal Science has published the recently completed 200-million base-pair genome sequence of the water flea, Daphnia pulex. The DNA code is the largest number of genes ever recorded for a multicellular animal (more than in the human genome!), and one-third are of unknown function. Chris Detter of the Laboratory’s Genome Science and leader of… [Read More]

DOE JGI’s Community Sequencing Program Project Call in GenomeWeb

The Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute said today that it is now accepting letters of intent from researchers seeking to use the genomics technologies available through its Community Sequencing Program (CSP). JGI’s sequencing program provides the scientific community with access to a range of high-throughput technologies for use in large-scale sequence-based genomic projects that… [Read More]