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A few tool updates

I’m working to make more data available in the genome browsers for fungi. One is adding in the Primer information from the Neurospora KO project to the Neurospora browser to indicate the position and primer sequences for all the gene knockouts being (or already) constructed.  At least 60% of the genes have been knocked out and [...]

Coprinopsis cinereus genome annotation updated

The Broad Institute in collaboration with many of the Coprinopsis cinereus (Coprinus cinerea) community of researchers have updated the genome annotation for C. cinereus with additional gene calls based on ESTs and improved gene callers. The annotation was made on the 13 chromosome assembly produced by work by SEMO fungal biology group and collaborators across [...]

Please be sure of your mushroom’s identity before eating

SFChronicle has an article on musroom poisining over this holiday season. Please be sure of what you are have found before eating. Waiting for that spore print is worth it when in doubt (at [...]

Eigenfactors of mycology journals

Eigenfactor.org computes journal’s influence (akin to Impact Factor). Here’s a plot of the influence and number of articles in journals classified as “Mycology”. It shows bubbles representing eigenfactor and the lines are the representation of change over time – the animation is much more informative. Unfortunately a few mycology journals like Fungal Genetics and Biology aren’t [...]