[DI] Launch of Microbial Genomes Mailing List

[m.pallen at qmw.ac.ukMarkPallen]

Dear Colleagues

Having recently returned from a meeting on the sequencing of Small Genomes
(http://www.tigr.org/conference/small_genome/sg.html), I was astonished at
the rate of progress in this field. To help the microbiology and molecular
biology community keep up to date in this field, I have launched an
electronic mailing list on the subject of microbial genomes. Instructions
on how to join or access this mailing list follow after my signature.

The list is intended to be a forum for the discussion of microbial genomes
(bacterial, archaeal and small eucaryotic genomes), including announcements
on progress on genome sequencing projects and technical
details of sequencing and sequence analysis.

More specifically, intended uses of the list include, but are not limited to:

*       Announcements of new microbial genome sequencing projects
*       Announcements of significant milestones in current projects
*       Announcements of completion of microbial genome sequencing projects
*       Take away lessons or vignettes gleaned from sequencing projects
*       Distribution of URLs for sites pertaining to sequencing projects,
        including genomic databases
*       Information on newly published papers on small genome sequencing
*       Discussion of sequencing techniques, hardware etc
*       Discussion of sequence annotation and analysis methods,
        software, algorithms etc
*       Discussion of the ways in which genomic data can be used,
        including up-and-coming technologies (DNA chips, EUROFAN etc.)
*       Requests for collaborators on genome sequencing and analysis projects
*       Dissemination of pre-prints for discussion and electronic peer review
*       Announcements of meetings on microbial genomes

Although specific mailing lists already exist for some projects
(see http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/parasite-genome and
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/filarial-genome), I hope that
microbial-genomes will act as a general forum on microbial genomes.

Please forward this e-mail to anyone who you think might be interested.
Please get stuck in and post any information you have that might be of
interest to list readers!

To get the ball rolling, here is a handful of URLs that I gathered from the
small genomes meeting. I will post more to the list as I work through them
in the coming week. You can cut and paste the URLs into your browser, or
pick them up from the list archive on:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/microbial-genomes/archive.html

Terry Gaasterland's running list of genomes in progress:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/gaasterl/genomes.html
(includes links to Magpie page and many genome sites)

The E. coli genome center at Wisconsin
http://www.genetics.wisc.edu

Search Entrez's genome section:
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=c&form=0

EcoCyc database
http://www.ai.sri.com/ecocyc/server.html

Genome Sequence DataBase
http://www.ncgr.org/gsdb
http://www.ncgr.org/gsdb/bacteria.html
http://www.ncgr.org/gsdb/archaea.html
http://www.ncgr.org/gsdb/eukaryotes.html


Mark
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Dr Mark Pallen, Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology,
St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School
of Medicine and Dentistry, London, EC1A 7BE
currently on a Research Leave Fellowship at Imperial College
Rm 502, Dept of Biochem, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY
email:m.pallen at qmw.ac.uk  WWW: http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~rhbm001/mpallen.html
phone: day ++44(0)1715945254, eves ++44(0)1438869477, FAX ++44(0)1715945255
Author, Microbial Underground: http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~rhbm001
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T. Dobzhansky
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