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“Unleash your inner geek without spending a cent”

  Think technology and it’s not hard to see dollar signs. But California and the West have many free and geeky places worth visiting; you just have to know where to look…. In 2003, the Human Genome Project announced the sequencing of the complete human genome. The sequence of 3 billion A’s, T’s, C’s and… [Read More]

Joint Genome Institute among destinations in “The Geek Atlas”

Each site in The Geek Atlas focuses on discoveries or inventions and includes information about the people and the science behind them. Full of photos and illustrations, the book comes complete with latitudes and longitudes for GPS devices. The destinations covered include, naturally, Bletchley Park itself, as well as the Alan Turing Memorial in Manchester,… [Read More]

During many years of travelling he has visited most of the places he wrote about. Personal favourites include the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, the working model of Babbage’s Difference Engine in London’s Science Museum, the Joint (human) Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California and the National Cryptological Museum in Maryland, which has a… [Read More]

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“U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute releases expanded version of Phytozome.net, clearinghouse for comparative plant genomics data”

An enhanced version of Phytozome.net, a web portal for comparative plant genomics geared to advance biofuel, food, feed, and fiber research, has been released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Phytozome provides a central “hub” for web access to a rapidly growing number of plant genomes, and includes tools for… [Read More]

“JGI Updates Microbial Genomes Resource”

The US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute has released an updated microbial genomics resource for researchers that now includes reference genomes and metagenomic data, JGI said Tuesday. The Integrated Microbial Genomes system with Microbiomes (IMG/M) 2.8 contains tools for analysis of microbial communities based on their metagenome sequence, within the context of reference isolate… [Read More]

“Craig Venter Has Algae Biofuel in Synthetic Genomics’ Pipeline”

In his Joint Genome Institute keynote speech in March, Venter said “the new algae” is something that “secretes whatever lipid size we want to engineer. This changes algae from what everybody’s been looking at as a farming problem into a manufacturing problem. So we are trying to get algae to go into a continuous production… [Read More]

“Expanded Version of Phytozome.net Released by DOE JGI”

Phytozome, accessible to the public at www.phytozome.net, is a collaboration between scientists at the DOE JGI, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California, Berkeley Center for Integrative Genomics. It was developed with funding from the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Gordon and Betty Moore… [Read More]

Integrated Microbial Genomes Expert Review Goes Primetime

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Biological Data Management and Technology Center (BDMTC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have launched the Expert Review (ER) version of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) system. IMG ER supports and enhances the review and revision of annotations for both publicly available… [Read More]

“DOE JGI releases expanded version of Phytozome.net”

An enhanced version of Phytozome.net, a web portal for comparative plant genomics geared to advance biofuel, food, feed, and fiber research, has been released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Phytozome provides a central “hub” for web access to a rapidly growing number of plant genomes, and includes tools for… [Read More]