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The genus Pseudovibrio contains metabolically versatile bacteria adapted for symbiosis

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 09:30 — Michael Richter

JCoast has been used to analyze the genomes of two Pseudovibrio strains – FO-BEG1 and JE062. The strain FO-BEG1 is a required symbiont of a cultivated Beggiatoa strain, a sulfide-oxidizing, autotrophic bacterium, which was initially isolated from a coral.

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Archaea: Four cells turn seabed microbiology upside down

Tue, 04/02/2013 - 16:50 — Michael Richter

With DNA from just four cells, Danish researchers reveal how some of the world’s most abundant organisms play a key role in carbon cycling in the seabed.

Single-celled archaea are invisible to the naked eye, and even when using a microscope, great care must be taken to observe them. An international team of researchers led by the Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University, has nevertheless succeeded in retrieving four archaeal cells from seabed mud and mapping the genome of each one.

Microbial community data from sub-saline shallow Laguna de Carrizo

Mon, 08/08/2011 - 10:33 — Michael Richter

We recently published an interesting paper in Microbial Ecology:

Presentation about JCoast 1.6 features added

Fri, 12/10/2010 - 14:18 — Michael Richter

Presentation held at the MPI-Bremen, Germany. About currently possibilities with JCoast 1.6.

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MetaBar published

Tue, 07/06/2010 - 14:36 — Michael Richter

The Microbial Genomics Group at the MPI has published the web-based software tool MetaBar. Metabar supports consistent contextual data acquisition in compliance to the MIGS/MIMS/MIENS specifications defined by the Genomic Standards Consortium.

I already used a prior final version to generate a structured comment file for a metagenome submission via Sequin and it works quite well.