tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post3296671656156955621..comments2024-03-28T00:36:36.460-07:00Comments on The Tree of Life: Biologists rally to sequence 'neglected' microbes : Nature NewsJonathan Eisenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-11860084703705102862009-11-18T11:48:58.188-08:002009-11-18T11:48:58.188-08:00isnt it nice how phylogeny is kind of fractal? zo...isnt it nice how phylogeny is kind of fractal? zoom in on one family and you can still say some parts are well covered and others are not ...Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-62552527663247574662009-11-18T11:47:26.310-08:002009-11-18T11:47:26.310-08:00The Enterobacteriaceae are not "neglected,&qu...The Enterobacteriaceae are <b>not</b> "neglected," but the current coverage is decidedly skewed towards <i>Escherichia/Shigella</i>, <i>Salmonella</i>, and <i>Yersinia</i> ... and yes, I'm fully aware that I contributed to said skew.Guy Plunkett IIIhttp://www.genome.wisc.edu/information/gplunkett.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-84676215085869604042009-11-18T11:27:57.372-08:002009-11-18T11:27:57.372-08:00Nobody coordinates anything - best place to find i...Nobody coordinates anything - best place to find information is <a href="http://genomesonline.org/index2.htm" rel="nofollow"> Genomes Online </a>. <br /><br />I note that, however cool and important I think your project is, Enterobacteriaceae are not exactly "neglected" ;-)Jonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-51224178939237525942009-11-18T11:06:36.497-08:002009-11-18T11:06:36.497-08:00Jonathan -- do you know if anyone is "coordin...Jonathan -- do you know if anyone is "coordinating" these various microbial efforts? Here at UW-Madison a group led by Nicole Perna is tooling up to sequence 100 members of the Enterobacteriaceae under NSF's "Assembling the Tree of Life" funding. Here's a link to the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0936214" rel="nofollow">award abstract</a>. We don't have a web site up yet, but have picked our first 25 genomes ...Guy Plunkett IIIhttp://www.genome.wisc.edu/information/gplunkett.htmlnoreply@blogger.com