By Jason Stajich, on April 15th, 2010
A couple of papers should have captured your attention lately in the realm of fungal genomics.
One is the publication of the genome of the black truffle Tuber melanosporum. This appears as an advanced publication at Nature (OA by virtue of Nature’s agreement on genome papers) along with a NYT writeup and is a tasty exploration of [...]
By Jason Stajich, on August 11th, 2009
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 help [...]
By Jason Stajich, on March 16th, 2009
In preparation for Asilomar, JGI is releasing lots of the genome sequencing project portals. The Schizophyllum commune Genome Portal is now publicly available. Go get your white-rot gene investigation on! (Though please respect the community rules for 1st rights to publication of the genome-wide analyses). [...]
By Jason Stajich, on October 31st, 2008
Genome Technology highlights the very cool thing about next-gen sequencing – it puts the power in the hands of the researchers to explore genome sequence and doesn’t limit them to projects only funded through sequencing centers. The Genome Technology piece highlights work at Duke to sequence the genome Cladonia grayi, a lichenized fungus, with 454 technology at Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy through their next-gen sequencing program. [...]
By Jason Stajich, on May 8th, 2008
Neil has a great summary of the results from the Platypus genome [...]
By Jason Stajich, on December 19th, 2007
I’ve paraphrased an email sent by David Carter to folks interested in Saccharomyces resequencing project.
The latest version of the SGRP data is on the web site and ftp site. This release is somewhat provisional, and motivated more by the fact that we have a paper deadline coming up than by any claim to finality. It should be quite [...]
By Jason Stajich, on November 17th, 2007
The JGI have released the genome sequence and annotation of the Mycosphaerella fijiensis fungus an important crop pathogen of bananas. This Dothideomycete fungus is one of several in the clade of important plant pathogens that have been sequenced recently including M. gramicola, a relative that [...]
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 September 8th, 2007
The genome of the wheat and cereal pathogen Fusarium graminearum was published in Science this week in an article entitled “The Fusarium graminearum Genome Reveals a Link Between Localized Polymorphism and Pathogen Specializationtion”. The project was a collaboration of many different Fusarium research groups. [...]
By Jason Stajich, on July 4th, 2007
Several more fungi are on the docket for sequencing at JGI through their community sequencing program. This includes
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