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Mucor circinelloides genome and annotation available

The Mucormycotina (formerly Zygomycota) fungus Mucor circinelloides Genome Portal is now publicly available at http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Mucci1/Mucci1.home.html.

If you are planning to attend the Fungal Conference in Asilomar, there will be a JGI Workshop on March 19, 2009 at noon in Chapel to show how to use the manual curation tools.

Mucor circinelloides genome update

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