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I’ve migrated some of the services from UCB to UCR so the blog and wiki server as well as Gbrowse V1 services have migrated to UCR machine. The Gbrowse2 installation and migration of under-development services are still in progress but will hopefully be done in next two weeks. This setup is more flexible and I’ll blog [...] Too much on my plate as of late, so I’m woefully behind on posting much on interesting papers or news. Here’s a short list of links and papers that are worth a look though. “Evolution of pathogenicity and sexual reproduction in eight Candida genomes” published (Nature) A new and improved annotation of Cryptococcus neoformans var grubii strain H99 (serotype A) has been made available in GenBank and the Broad Institute website. This update is collaboration between several groups providing data and analyses and the annotation team at Broad’s gene calling [...] NPR’s Science Friday covered fungi with several myco-luminaries on the [...] An outbreak of a fungal infection called “white-nose syndrome” is killing bats in the Northeastern US. This New Scientist article mentions the outbreak briefly and an NPR story and recent Boston Globe story also gives it some [...]
This is the title as listed in PubMed for this article from Future Medicine about the AAM report on charting future needs and avenues of research on the fungal [...] Mike Challen has summarized discussion at two recent conferences regarding a Basidiomycete Research Network at his blog in a post on BRN – Summary of Discussions, 14/07/08. In particular it is important to establish a community network that will help basidiomycete labs. There is also a strong need for shared approaches for effective use the genomic data from the more than a dozen basidiomycete genomes currently being [...]
Looks like the USDA, Mars (the candy company), and IBM are partnering up to sequence the Cacao plants genome for everyone to use. Here is the article over at BBC News.
A year ago researchers at James Madison University discovered that, Pedobacter cryoconitis, a bacteria first found on the skin of red backed salamanders, was found to prevent the growth of the chytrid B. dendrobatidis, which is currently decimating frog populations.
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