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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]

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]