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Sequencing wine spoilage yeast

There is an article in Wine Spectator (Seen on the JGI feed) on sequencing the wine spoilage yeast bruxellensis (correct name is now Dekkera bruxellensis) which adds the not-so-excellent taste of “sweaty horse” to wines.  There is already some survey sequencing done by Ken Wolfe and Jurge Piskur’s groups so a full genome sequencing project will [...]