In the 21st century, it is becoming increasingly important for students to be aware of and understand basic biotechnological and microbiological concepts. As always, these scientific concepts are most effectively conveyed through hands-on laboratory experiences. However, laboratory exercises are challenging because of the potential risk of student exposure to harmful microbes and chemicals, challenges in maintaining sterility of cultures, cost of scientific materials, and length of time required for preparation and laboratory experiments. Because of the urgent need to improve and expand the biotechnology and microbiology component of curricula using novel, safe, and effective approaches, we have developed this web site. As the centerpiece of this project, we have utilized the halophilic microbe, Halobacterium species NRC-1, which has been extensively studied in our laboratory for the last 20 years, as an ideal teaching vehicle. ... [Information of the supplier]
Funded as part of the Wellcome Trust Functional Genomics Development Initiative, the GeneDB project is aiming to develop and maintain curated database resources for three organisms: Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which has been completely sequenced, and the kinetoplastid protozoa Leishmania major and Trypanosoma brucei, whose genome sequences have yet to be completed. The goals are to capture, store and manage data for integration with emerging functional genomics and proteomics projects and to provide an easy-to-use, user-friendly interface, including a variety of graphical displays. It is envisaged that the generic database structure will subsequently be adopted to integrate datasets for other organisms, both prokaryotic and eukaryotic, that have been sequenced by the Sanger Institute Pathogen Sequencing Unit. To this extend, datasets for Saccharomyces cerevisiae as well as the filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus are already available through GeneDB. The database has been developed through close collaboration between Sanger Institute software developers, on-site organism specific curators and representatives of the research communities. The data within geneDB are manually annotated and curated, frequently updated and, because of the structured annotation and use of controlled vocabulary, easy to precisely query. The database is under constant review and new functionality will be added as it evolves. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Earth Microbiome Project is a proposed massively multidisciplinary effort to analyze microbial communities across the globe. The general premise is to examine microbial communities from their own perspective. Hence we propose to characterize the Earth by environmental parameter space into different biomes and then explore these using samples currently available from researchers across the globe. We will analyze 200,000 samples from these communities using metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and amplicon sequencing to produce a global Gene Atlas describing protein space, environmental metabolic models for each biome, approximately 500,000 reconstructed microbial genomes, a global metabolic model, and a data-analysis portal for visualization of all information. ... [Information of the supplier]
Die Seite Yeast Experiments des Department of Physics der Kansas State University beschäftigt sich mit der Hefe Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Dargestellt wird Genetik, Biochemie und die Verwendung von Saccharomyces; außerdem werden einige Experimente vorgestellt und erläutert. [Redaktion vifabio]
The MIPS Comprehensive Yeast Genome Database (CYGD) aims to present information on the molecular structure and functional network of the entirely sequenced, well-studied model eukaryote, the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In addition the data of various projects on related yeasts are used for comparative analysis. ... [Information of the supplier]
CGD is an organized collection of genetic and molecular biological information about Candida albicans, a yeast that is an opportunistic pathogen of humans. It contains information about Candida albicans genes and proteins; descriptions and classifications of their biological roles, molecular functions, and subcellular localizations; gene, protein, and chromosome sequence information; tools for analysis and comparison of sequences; and links to literature information. The CGD Home page is the main entry point for the database. CGD is aimed at scientists; collected information for the non-scientist about Candida albicans and other yeasts can be found at the Yeast Virtual Library. CGD is based on the Saccharomyces Genome Database and is funded by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research at the US National Institutes of Health. ... [Information of the supplier]
FungiDB belongs to the EuPathDB family of databases and is an integrated genomic and functional genomic database for the kingdom Fungi. In its first iteration (released in early 2011), FungiDB contains the genomes of 18 Fungi covering 17 species. FungiDB integrates whole genome sequence and annotation and will expand to include experimental data and environmental isolate sequences provided by the community of researchers. The database includes comparative genomics, analysis of gene expression, and supplemental bioinformatics analyses and a web interface for data-mining. ... [Information of the supplier]
Phenomics of yeast Mutants (PhenoM) is an online database, containing quantitative measurements of 1,909,914 cells and 78,194 morphological images for 775 temperature-sensitive mutants spanning 491 different essential genes in permissive temperature (26 C) and restrictive temperature (32 C). The morphological images were generated by high-content screening (HCS) technology conducted in Boone and Andrews labs at Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research (CCBR), University of Toronto. ... [Information of the supplier]
You are invited to attend the 28th Fungal Genetics Conference being held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds. The conference will open on Tuesday evening, March 17 with an Opening Mixer from 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm and end on Sunday, March 22. This meeting promotes the dissemination of the latest research on all aspects of fungal genetics with a focus on filamentous fungi and encourages communication and collaboration between researchers interested in genomics, gene regulation, cell biology and development, evolutionary biology, fungal-host interactions and biotechnology. ... [Information of the supplier]
MaarjAM is a web-based database containing Glomeromycota DNA sequence data that originate from ecological studies based on “environmental samples” or taxonomic investigations based on cultured fungi. It has the following goals: to bring together published data from studies applying molecular methods to the natural diversity and taxonomy of Glomeromycota; to reclassify existing sequence data and create “virtual taxa” on the basis of a novel phylogenetic analysis. Species (binomial) and “molecular taxa” classifications are also indicated where available; to enable browsing and searching in relation to virtual taxa classification, original species/molecular taxa classifications, and ecological/biogeographic variables, including geographical location, biome and host plant. ... [Information of the supplier]