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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]

GEBA project on R&D Mag

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 into this uncharted territory, an analysis of the first 56 genomes representing two of the three domains of the tree of life appears in the December 24 edition… [Read More]

UC Davis news release on GEBA project

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 Press Trust of India

A preview of the initial “volume” of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA), which was published by the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), has recently appeared in journal Nature. The report presented an analysis of the first 56 genomes representing two of the three domains of the tree of life…. [Read More]

NYTimes’ GEBA article noted by GenomeWeb

Carl Zimmer at the New York Times discusses the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea and the recent Nature paper on the first results from the effort. So far, Jonathan Eisen and his colleagues have sequenced 56 bacterial and archaeal genomes and found 1,768 new gene families. Zimmer adds that the Joint Genome Institute has… [Read More]

GEBA project featured on ScienceDaily

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 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… [Read More]

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… [Read More]