DOE Joint Genome Institute

All JGI Features
Home › Items tagged with: bacteria

Content Tagged "bacteria"

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 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]

GEBA project on The Tehran Times

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 clustered together in groups of closely related species, leaving vast stretches of the microbial tree of life virtually unexplored. It would be as if all we… [Read More]

GEBA project on The Daily Democrat

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.” “This is a rich sampling of… [Read More]

GEBA project on Medical News Today

Genome scientists from the US 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.” “This is a rich sampling of… [Read More]

GEBA project on GenomeWeb Daily News

Researchers involved in the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project reported on the first 56 microbial genomes to be sequenced and analyzed through that effort in Nature online today. More details in GenomeWeb‘s Daily News roundup. [Read More]