Genome Project Solutions
Sequencing and informatics with both academic and corporate partners
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July 2008: Genome Project Solutions acquires a license to CLC Bio's "Genomics Workbench" . . . more information
June 2008: Genome Project Solutions delivers an evolutionary analysis of all genes along with ortholog colinearity maps for seven completely sequenced stramenopile genomes in time for the Hyaloperonospora genome "jamboree" at Virginia Tech . . . more information
May 2008: Affiliate SymBio Corporation reaches a milestone of 650,000 lanes of capillary sequencing for the whole genome sequence of the glaucophyte, Cyanophora paradoxa . . . more information
March 2008: Jeffrey Boore serves on an NSF Advisory Panel in Arlington, Virginia, regarding their Assembling the Tree of Life Program . . . more information
January 2008: Affiliate SymBio Corporation reaches a milestone of 1x coverage on the genome of the monarch butterfly . . . more information
December 2007: Jeffrey Boore, CEO of Genome Project Solutions, is senior author for a manuscript in the journal Science that describes the complete genome sequence of the moss Physcomitrella patens . . . more information
November 2007: Jeffrey Boore co-authors a manuscript published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reports the complete sequences of 13 plastid genomes and analyzes 81 genes from 64 species in order to reconstruct the evolutionary relationship of major plant groups . . . more information
November 2007: The Genome Standards Consortium publishes its MIGs (Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence) standards in Nature Biotechnology, the result of two years of effort by dozens of researchers, including two scientists from Genome Project Solutions . . . more information
October 2007: The project to sequence the complete genome of the glaucophyte Cyanophora paradoxa passes the milestone of 200,000 sequencing lanes . . . more information
September 2007: Jeffrey Boore co-authors a manuscript in BMC Genomics that describes and compares the complete Hox cluster of the cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni . . . more information
September 2007: Genome Project Solutions receives a contract from the USDA portion of a NSF/USDA Microbial Genome Program grant to Brett Tyler of Virginia Bioinformatics Institute for polishing and interpreting the complete genome sequence of the oomycete Phytophthora sojae, a devastating plant pathogen, and providing informatics resources to the scientific community on the six sequenced oomycete genomes . . . more information
August 2007: Our latest run evolutionary trees of the complete gene sets from the whole genome sequence of the first crustacean, Daphnia pulex and the first three lophotrochozoan animals, the polychaete Capitella, the oligochaete Helobdella, and the mollusk Lottia. Results have been loaded into the genome browser at the DOE Joint Genome Institute.
July 2007: Scientists from Genome Project Solutions participate in the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Chicago, Illinois, by making six scientific presentations.
June 2007: Jeffrey Boore, CEO of Genome Project Solutions, gives an invited public lecture in London at the Royal Society as part of the Tercenterary Celebration of Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy . . . more information
June 2007: Susan Fuerstenberg, President and COO of Genome Project Solutions, joins the Genome Standards Consortium, a group led by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) with a mission of enriching and standardizing data from genome sequencing projects . . . more information
November 2006: Scientists from Genome Project Solutions participate in a meeting in Portland, Maine, as part of the scientific team on the NSF-funded "Heterokont Tree of Life" project . . . more information
November 2006: PhIGs (Phylogenetically Inferred Groups), the first fully evolutionary analysis of all completely sequenced eukaryotic genomes, is updated to now contain nearly 654,000 genes . . . more information
September 2006: Jeffrey Boore serves on the faculty of a special European course in Genome Evolution held at the University of Bologna Conference Center in Bertinoro, Italy.
August 2006: Jeffrey Boore is the senior author for a manuscript published in the journal Science that describes and compares the complete genome sequences of two oomycetes, Phytophthora sojae, a soybean pathogen causing billions of dollars of crop losses annually, and Phytophthora ramorum, which causes Sudden Oak Death Symdrome . . . more information
June 2006: Proof of two rounds of whole genome duplication at the base of vertebrate evolution . . . more information
