Sequencing and Analysis of the Hydra Genome
Chapman, Kirkness et al., Nature
An international research collaboration reports their sequencing and analysis of the Hydra magnipapillata genome, and compare it to the genomes of several other organisms. "The Hydra genome has been shaped by bursts of transposable element expansion, horizontal gene transfer, trans-splicing, and simplification of gene structure and gene content that parallel simplification of the Hydra life cycle," the authors write. They team suggests that comparisons of the Hydra genome to the reported sequences of other animals have helped them to elucidate the evolution of several of the organism's characteristics.
Stanford Students Start Consultancy to Help Stimulus Recipients Fulfill Bioinformatics Needs
April 10, 2009
With the slogan "Pay only if you get funding," the shop, called Stimulomics, hopes to appeal to wet-lab biologists scrambling to file proposals for NIH Challenge Grants requiring bioinformatics support.
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