Science news articles about 'genome biology'

  • Superbug genome sequenced

    ... researchers discover how to deal with this particularly resistant organism. The paper will be published in Genome Biology. Dr Matthew Avison from the University of Bristol, and senior author on the ...
  • What makes a cow a cow? Genome sequence sheds light on ruminant evolution

    ... low quality forage such as grass. The bovine genome consists of at least 22,000 protein- ... align the sequence. Lewin, who directs the Institute for Genomic Biology, also led two teams of researchers ...
  • Integrated microbial genomes expert review goes primetime

    ... head of DOE JGI's Genome Biology Program. "As one of the leading microbial genome sequencing centers ... IMG system contains a rich collection of genomes from all three domains of life: as of April 2009 ...
  • Closing the gaps in the human genome

    ... in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology have described a simple and scalable method for finishing non-structural gaps in genome assemblies. Manuel Garber worked with a team of ...
  • Exploring standards to advance microbial genomics

    ... far more could be done with microbial genomics, according to DOE JGI Genome Biology head Nikos Kyrpides ... Life recently launched through GEBA: the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (http://www ...
  • Exploring standards to advance microbial genomics

    ... two-thirds of the nearly 5,000 genome projects reported in the Genomes OnLine Database (http:// ... far more could be done with microbial genomics, according to DOE JGI Genome Biology head Nikos Kyrpides, ...
  • Will Standards Advance Microbial Genomics?

    ... lot could be done with microbial genomics, says DOE JGI Genome Biology head Nikos Kyrpides ... present anthropocentric focus and institute shared standards for genomic data collection and analysis. read ...
  • Sea lamprey jettison one-fifth of their genome

    ... DNA errors that give rise to cancers or other genomic disorders in higher animals. Learning how sea ... dinosaurs. It's possible that the sea lamprey's dynamic genome biology might someday be traced back ...
  • After dinosaurs, mammals rise but their genomes get smaller

    ... scientists in the first issue of a new journal, Genome Biology and Evolution. The scientists' finding might seem ... years yet. Lynch's group examined the genomes of seven mammals, eight non-mammalian ...
  • New genomic model defines microbes by diet -- provides tool for tracking environmental change

    ... ecologically significant in the biosphere. DOE JGI Genome Biology Program head and study co- ... research tools, such as metagenomics and single-cell genomics, provide us with data of ecological relevance ...
  • Horse genome sequence and analysis published in Science

    ... Lindblad-Toh, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ... technology (known as Sanger sequencing) to reveal a genome that is roughly 2.7 billion letters ...
  • Break it down

    ... revealed from the Podospora draft genome sequence published in BioMed Central’s open access journal, Genome Biology. The study also shows that the Podospora genome contains a large, highly specialised ...
  • Mapping of prostate cancer genes opens the door to new treatments

    ... future treatments. The findings, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Genome Biology, revealed 581 genes that are differentially expressed in certain prostate cancer cells, highlighting ...
  • Novel toxin receptor discovered for ulcer-causing stomach pathogen

    ... Steven Blanke, a University of Illinois professor in the department of microbiology and Institute for Genomic Biology and principal investigator on the study. “Paradoxically, although H. pylori is a ...
  • Large-scale community protein annotation -- WikiProteins

    ... developed based upon the collaborative Wikipedia approach. Described in BioMed Central’s open access journal Genome Biology, WikiProteins provides a method for community annotation on ...

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