By Jason Stajich, on October 31st, 2007
By Jason Stajich, on October 22nd, 2007
A paper on “Effects of Aneuploidy on Cellular Division in Haploid Yeast” describes what must be a very stressful situation for a cell, when it loses or gains a [...]
By Jason Stajich, on October 16th, 2007
I recently heard through the grapevine that the Mucor ircinelloides genome 4X assembly was completed by JGI and a BLAST server is available if you contact the authors. Mucorales (previously Zygomycota which is not monophyletic) includes previously sequenced Rhizopus oryzae and Phycomyces blakesleeanus which we’ve blogged about before.
Mucor is model system for the Zygos/Mucorales as it can be
By Jason Stajich, on October 16th, 2007
Ed Louis at Nottingham sent out an email today outlining plans for publishing analyses of the Saccharomyces Genome Resequencing Project. They are in process of analyzing the data and ask that people respect their use of the data, but also invite collaborations and companion [...]
By Jason Stajich, on October 11th, 2007
This was sent along from the GSA. It is important to contact your represenative about the Vote in the Senate on NIH Funding.
The Senate is expected to vote on the Fiscal Year 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (L-HHS) appropriations bill the week of October [...]
By Jason Stajich, on October 9th, 2007
Reverting CUG tRNA from derived change coding for serine back to leucine (standard code) has profound effect on [...]
By Jason Stajich, on October 5th, 2007
For those within reach of Bay Area, Jonanthan Eisen (who recently posted about 3-day Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area meeting) will be presenting at Bay Area BioSystematists meeting on Oct 16. [...]
By sharpton, on October 5th, 2007
Few organisms are as well understood at the genetic level as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Given that there are more yeast geneticists than yeast genes and exemplary resources for the community (largely a result of their size), this comes as no surprise. [...]
By Jason Stajich, on October 4th, 2007
Nature has an overview of what goes in and out of next generation sequencers with an interview with a smiling Chad Nusbaum from the Broad Institute. Most of these have been out and about for a while, but it seems that the hayride/bandwagon is starting to pick up more steam as GT’s Genome Scan has several posts about sequencing referencing J. Craig V,
By Jason Stajich, on October 3rd, 2007
Coprinus cinereus (renamed Coprinopsis cinerea) growing in the lab. The genome was sequenced, assembled into chromosomes, and annotated and we are working on the final analysis of it to describe some of the interesting biology about this little Coprophilic fungus. I’m excited to put up a few of my pictures of the tiny mushrooms growing in the lab (although others [...]