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Dead zone microbe on io9

Researchers have mapped the genome of a microbe that thrives in oxygen-deprived areas of the ocean known as “dead zones.” These creatures are increasing, and their ability to live without oxygen might make them perfect space-dwellers. The article, published today in Science, looks at a microbe known as SUPO5, which lives in areas of the… [Read More]

Dead zone metagenome study on the CBC

Canadian and U.S. researchers have mapped the genome of a microbe that lives in ocean “dead zones,” areas of low-oxygen water that are expanding because of climate change. Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the U.S. Department of Energy say the microbe, called SUP05, is the most abundant organism in these oxygen-minimum zones… [Read More]

Marine metagenome study in New Kerala

In a new study, a team of scientists has mapped the genome of a microbe that is a key biological indicator of oceanic dead zones. The study was carried out by a team of researchers at the University of British Columbia, along with colleagues at the US Dept. of Energy Joint Genome Institute. “Microbes specialize… [Read More]

In a new study, a team of scientists has mapped the genome of a microbe that is a key biological indicator of oceanic dead zones. The study was carried out by a team of researchers at the University of British Columbia, along with colleagues at the US Dept. of Energy Joint Genome Institute. [Read More]

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OMZ metagenomic study on redOrbit

In the Oct. 23 issue of the journal Science, researchers from the University of British Columbia and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) describe the metagenome of an abundant but uncultivated microbe, known as SUP05, that is silently helping to shape the ecology of [oxygen minimum zones] worldwide. Researchers studied the… [Read More]

JGI’s Fall 2009 Primer now available for download

Featuring, in no particular order: JGI’s new Fungal Genome Program and GEF project differentiating between oligotrophs and copiotrophs Lessons from the Genomics Standards Consortium’s 8th meeting held at the JGI in September, and useful acronyms for parsing their pages Gap Resolution software T. reesei (redux) Nectria‘s extra chromosomes JGI collaborators and their projects at HudsonAlpha,… [Read More]

Jonathan Eisen on Fora.tv

Video of Jonathan Eisen, head of the DOE JGI’s Phylogenomics Group, talking about “The Evolution of Microbes and their Genomes” at the California Academy of Sciences on October 3 now on Fora.tv [Read More]

Genome Project Standards paper covered by GenomeWeb

With sequencing speed increasing and cost decreasing, some have estimated that public databases will house 12,000 draft genomes by 2012. But because the quality and completion of these genomes varies dramatically, the authors suggest new standards are needed to classify draft and finished genomes — and everything in between. “Exponential leaps in raw sequencing capability… [Read More]

“Establishing standard definitions for genome sequences” on Science Codex

As the proverbial “fire hose of data” becomes a Niagara torrent, with conservative estimates of 12,000 draft genomes hitting the public databases by 2012, researchers may be surprised to find that these datasets describe genomes that are not complete. Recognizing the problem, a group of researchers from several sequencing centers, including the DOE Joint Genome… [Read More]

“Joint Announcement sets Six Genome Sequence Standards”

“Standards are a major issue to be tackled in genomics right now,” says Patrick Chain from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico, USA and joint first author. “These proposals are guideposts meant to inform users and generators.” A range of next-generation sequencing technologies, increasingly deployed in research, generate massive amounts of data in any… [Read More]