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New tool helps find gene markers in microorganisms

Researchers have devised a novel method to exploit relationships between bacteria and archaea for a new set of gene markers The Science The researchers developed a new way to identify gene markers in bacteria and the primitive microorganisms classified in the kingdom known as Archaea. Dubbed, PhyEco (for phylogenetic and phylogenetic ecology) this strategy can… [Read More]

JGI Science @ the Lesher: “The Deal with Microbes” video

The May 9, 2011 event at the Lesher Center for the Arts in downtown Walnut Creek featured Jonathan Eisen and Rachel Mackelprang of DOE JGI, and Terry Hazen of Berkeley Lab. KTVU Health and Science Editor John Fowler served as panel moderator. (Note: There’s a short delay before the video starts at the 20-second mark.)… [Read More]

JGI Science @ the Lesher in The Oakland Tribune

The researchers, who will speak Monday evening at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, are working with the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, a federal facility for genetic sequencing of microbes and other life-forms. The terrestrial ecosystem, meaning everything on land — from plants to soil and other geological features —… [Read More]

JGI Science @ the Lesher in Contra Costa Times

The researchers, who will speak Monday evening at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, are working with the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, a federal facility for genetic sequencing of microbes and other life-forms. The terrestrial ecosystem, meaning everything on land — from plants to soil and other geological features —… [Read More]

Eisen blogs Twitter wrap-up of the DOE JGI User Meeting

Off to another meeting so don’t have time to write up details of the JGI User Meeting that just ended.  But I am posting my tweets and some related tweets here.  Also, apparently videos of the talks will be available soon. Will try to clean up the style of the posts ASAP but on the… [Read More]

Tasmanian devils at DOE JGI User Meeting in GenomeWeb

As part of the large-scale conservation effort he calls “Project Ark,” Schuster and his team intend to genotype hundreds of Tasmanian devils, he told attendees of the sixth annual Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute User Meeting held in Walnut Creek, Calif., this week. To date, he said, devil tumor facial disease does not seem… [Read More]

Jonathan Eisen named 2011 Benjamin Franklin Laureate

Jonathan Eisen, a renowned open access advocate is awarded the tenth annual Benjamin Franklin award. This award, voted for by members of Bioinformatics.org, recognizes those providing free and open access to materials and methods in science.  More information here. [Read More]

GEBA Project: “Beyond Darwin’s Wildest Dreams”

Recently, Eisen and his colleagues unveiled a pilot project that they hope will help the community make the most of existing microbial genome data with a phylogeny-driven resource called the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea at the Joint Genome Institute. Currently available genomic resources for microbes are from a very narrow phylogenetic distribution of… [Read More]

GEBA project on Microbe World

The Joint Genome Institute at the Energy Department has started what it calls a “genomic encyclopedia,” a collection of genomes from diverse microbes. Using an evolutionary approach that differs in strategy from how scientists originally chose organisms for sequencing, researchers hope to discover many new kinds of genes. According the New York Times, “the genomic… [Read More]

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]