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Health & Medicine, Science & Technology - Wednesday, December 23, 2009 16:20 - 0 Comments
Encyclopedia of microbe genomes: Chapter 1
There are estimated to be a nonillion—1 followed by 30 zeroes—prokaryotic microbes on the planet. About a thousand prokaryote genomes have been sequenced to date, most of them among the small number that cause disease, or that do interesting things such as producing biofuels. “That’s like making a map of the world and only mapping three cities,” says Jonathan Eisen.
UC DAVIS—Genome scientists from the United States and Germany have assembled the first pages of a comprehensive encyclopedia of genomes of all the microbes on Earth. Continue…
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