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This one goes to 1000…

Our community sequencing project at the JGI was awarded which will allow a consortium of researchers to sequence 1000 fungal genomes through the DOE’s Joint Genome Institute. The intention is to sample two species from every major lineage of Fungi.

Some press releases on the project below and we will coordinate it through several websites including a [...]

A primer on the Fungi

Our primer on the Fungi is available (currently free) on the Current Biology website.  A version with extra refs inserted is available in pre-print format here. In this primer we provide a broad overview of the major evolutionary defined groups within Fungal kingdom. Our intention is make the kingdom a little less mysterious for non-mycologists and introduce some open [...]

Mushrooms on the journey

Went from CA to OR to ID, MT, and WY for work (Bioinformatics symposium at Oregon State) and a little vacation.  Here are a couple of mushrooms and lichens seen along the way.

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