Posts Tagged ‘genomics’
What information about those delicate fungal flavors and aromas will now yield itself to the prying machines of molecular biologists? French and Italian researchers announced in the journal Nature, that the genome of the Perigord black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) has been sequenced. Of course if you followed fungal news on twitter, you’d already know this, [...]
Tags: genome sequencing, genomics, perigord black truffle, symbiosis genes, truffle genome sequenced, Tuber mating types, Tuber melanosporum
Researchers in Canada have announced the sequencing of the genome of Grosmannia clavigera, a fungus found in the mouth parts of the mountain pine beetle. According to Fungus genome boosts fight to save North American forests from Nature News: “Mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae) have eaten their way through vast swathes of western North American [...]
Tags: genomics, Grosmannia, phytopathology, pine beetle
A recent post at sciencedaily.com, Fungal Map Of Mutations Key To Increasing Enzyme Production For Bioenergy Use, discussed once again the use of Trichoderma reesei as a possible biofuel producer. This time some work at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) was mentioned. “We want to understand the path that we’ve taken to high enzyme production [...]
Tags: genomics, JGI, PNNL, Trichoderma
Open Helix, provider of training programs for scientists, has a free version of their Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) web-based training product. The company offers both online and site-based training on a range of genomic analayis tools. According to the company website: “OpenHelix provides convenient and effective online tutorial suites on the most powerful and popular [...]
Tags: genomics, Saccharomyces, tutorials, yeast
Earlier this year, Roche Applied Science sponsored a contest with a prize of 10 GB of sequence data obtained with a 454 Life Science’s Genome Sequencer FLX System. One of the winning teams plans to use the grant to perform an analysis of fungal gardens maintained by leaf cutter ants. The other winning team is [...]
Tags: genomics
A post at the website of R&D Magazine provides a concise description of a recently completed project that accomplished full-genome sequencing of six strains in the genus Candida. Members of the genus Candida (especially Candida albicans) are causative agents of “yeast” infections in humans. Candida is also a lethal agent of deep mycoses in immunodeficient [...]
Tags: Candida, genomics, pathogeni fungi
