By Jason Stajich, on September 14th, 2009
A nice series of comparative genomics articles have been published in the last few weeks. The pace of genome sequencing has accelerated to the point that we have lots of sequencing projects coming from individual labs and small consortia not necessarily from genome centers. We are seeing a preview of what next (2nd) generation [...]
By Jason Stajich, on July 22nd, 2009
If you can make plans to head to Spain in October you should consider attending the EMBO conference on Comparative Genomics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms October 17-22 outside of Barcelona. Lots of very interesting speakers and I’ve got the chance to be there to speak about ideas and results using comparative genomics to study evolution of [...]
By Jason Stajich, on June 3rd, 2008
We’re excited that a Penicillium marneffei grant to Mat Fisher and collaborators has been funded by the Welcome Trust. It includes a collaboration with University College London, our lab, JCVI, and Univ of Melbourne. This project will explore functional and comparative genomics approaches to studying the [...]
By Jason Stajich, on April 6th, 2008
The Broad Institute has made available the Schizosaccharomyces octosporus genome sequence producing another model system (S.pombe) with several related species for comparative genomics. I believe S. octosporus genome was entirely sequenced with 454 technology. The other genome sequences in the Taphrina clade include the S. japonicus genome. S. octosporus is pretty interesting as it grows filamentously and is 8-spored [...]