The OpenHelix Blog

Hey, just a quick post to let you know about the upcoming user meeting for the Joint Genome Institute, which is occurring March 26-28th in Walnut Creek, CA. I’ve blogged about the JGI’s phenominal Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) resource & that will be discussed as well as LOTS of other interesting stuff. You can check [...]

Recently I was watching a show about the beginning of life on Earth, and they were talking about how important Cyanobacteria was for making oxygen available for other life forms. As they talked about astrobiology and the search for other inhabitable planets, it occurred to me that I know a way of searching for microbes associated [...]