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  1. JGI to be early access tester of Roche company 454's GS Junior System with long read chemistry that's to be released 2010: http://tr.im/Fk1P
  2. From invasive species threat to potential key biomass for biofuel producer - CSP 2009 project duckweed in The Scientist: http://tr.im/FcuJ
  3. Microbial diversity, "'neglected' species", Jonathan Eisen and the GEBA project - all in one NatureNews piece: http://tr.im/Fct6
  4. Draft genome sequence of cassava, a CSP 2007 project, now complete; crop breeding project awarded Gates Foundation grant. http://tr.im/EC7p
  5. In Nucleic Acids Research, paper on IMG as "an expanding comparative analysis resource": http://tr.im/E46q
  6. Registration for the next DOE JGI User Meeting is now available online!! http://bit.ly/2YbwDL
  7. Details of CSP 2010 bioenergy-based project on microbes associated with blue grama grass featuring Sandia researchers at http://tr.im/DoS1
  8. JGI and UBC on the importance of studying microbial metagenomes in ocean "dead zones" in this week's issue of Science: http://tr.im/CHst
  9. Revisiting the need for expanded genome standards, Part 2 at see JGI’s Patrick Chain's talk at GSC8 on SciVee: http://bit.ly/392DMY
  10. Revisiting the need for expanded genome standards (http://bit.ly/PxgVs), Part 1: JGI’s Patrick Chain's talk at SFAF at http://bit.ly/unz7q
  11. JGI's Fall Primer featuring GSC8, fungi, marine microbial lifestyles and resolving gap closures now available: http://bit.ly/2JiHdO
  12. DOE JGI's Patrick Chain and Chris Detter on the need for expanded genome standards in this week's issue of Science: http://bit.ly/PxgVs
  13. Petroleum technology is "extraordinarily mature" due to a century of American know-how; need to apply that to a new energy technology.
  14. Susannah Tringe talks about the Amazonian stinkbird or hoatzin that breaks down biomass like cows (and also produces methane)
  15. Bristow at Science at the Theater: "We're synthesizing fuel the same way Egyptians did 6,000 years ago. We should be able to do better."
  16. Jim Bristow likens JGI to a car parts dealer, "but we deal with a genome parts list"
  17. Science at the Theater talk on biofuels with Jay Keasling and JGI's Jim Bristow & Susannah Tringe starting momentarily http://bit.ly/1TOvr1
  18. Available online at PNAS Early Edition, Cavicchioli et al's paper on genomic model for microbial lifestyles: http://bit.ly/186iuq
  19. Alaskan bacteria sequenced at DOE JGI used to develop a genomic model that can identify oligotrophs and copiotrophs: http://bit.ly/1NvPM3
  20. In PNAS Early Edition this week: researchers develop genomic model that defines microbes by diet. Link to follow.