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…
GEBA project featured in NYTimes
If you want to appreciate the diversity of life on earth, you will need a microscope…. Yet scientists still know very little about our microbial planet. The genomes of only about 1,000 species of microbes have been sequenced. That leaves 99.99999 percent to go. Making matters worse, the genomes scientists have sequenced so far are…
Opening New Frontiers: First Volume of Microbial Encyclopedia Published in the Journal Nature by DOE JGI, Collaborators
WALNUT CREEK, CA—The Earth is estimated to have about a nonillion (10 to the 30th) 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…
In Sequence interviews JGI’s Patrick Chain
As lead author of the recent Science paper on the need for new standards for the quality of genome sequences, JGI’s Patrick Chain sat down with In Sequence for an article published Dec. 10.
DOE JGI early tester of 454’s benchtop sequencer on Y!Finance
454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG), announced today at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in Kissimmee, Florida a series of revolutionary developments which significantly expand the company’s high-throughput sequencing portfolio. Addressing the growing demand for next-generation sequencing data in everyday biological and clinical research, the company revealed the new GS Junior…
DOE JGI early tester of 454’s benchtop sequencer on PharmaLive
The company announced plans to initiate an early access program for development of the next set of performance improvements to the Genome Sequencer FLX System, which will double the read length of the current GS FLX Titanium Kits and expect to contain reads up to 1,000 bp. The DOE Joint Genome Institute will be the…
Jonathan Eisen, GEBA project in Nature
“The broad brush strokes of microbial diversity are not adequately represented in that first thousand,” says Stephen Giovannoni, a microbiologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. “It’s absolutely important that we sequence more.” Enter the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea, a project spearheaded by the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in…
Archael transcriptome map on GenomeWeb
In a collaboration between scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Joint BioEnergy Institute, and the Joint Genome Institute, they have constructed a single-base resolution transcriptome map of Sulfolobus solfataricus P2, a well-studied model archaeal organism. More at GenomeWeb.
Cassava research on InSequence
Recently, UA researchers won a $1.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead an international consortium that is developing a genome variation database for cassava that aims to provide breeding tools to farmers for improving the plant and its disease resistance. The genome of the cassava, or Manihot esculenta, was sequenced…
Cassava research on The Medical News
In response to the urgency of this threat, and building upon the newly available cassava genome sequence, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $1.3 million grant to University of Arizona researchers who will lead an international consortium to develop a genome variation database that will provide breeding tools to aid farmers in…