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CAMERA 2.0 to be Unveiled at Three Upcoming Conferences
Date: 05/12/2010
CAMERA will host a booth to introduce Version 2.0 at ASM 2010, the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, to be held in San Diego, CA from Sunday, May 23 to Thursday, May 27, 2010 in the San Diego Convention Center.
Advancing the Metagenomics Revolution
Date: 05/10/2010
Advancing Science, Serving Society - AAAS 2010 Annual Meeting
18 - 22 February, 2010 -- San Diego
Abstract
The vast majority of life on earth is microbial. Virtually all ecologies rely on the intricate biochemistry of microbial life to sustain themselves. Historically most research on microbes depended on laboratory cultures, but since 99% of microbes cannot be cultured, it is only recently that modern genetic sequencing techniques have allowed determination of the hundreds to thousands of microbial species present at a specific environmental location. The amount of data specifying the “metagenomics” of these microbial ecologies is explosively growing as researchers everywhere are acquiring next generation sequencing devices. Since many genes are related across microbial species, the community needs repositories in which diverse environmental metagenomics samples can be quickly compared, both by comparing genomic data or environmental metadata.
Launching the Global Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Research and Analysis (CAMERA)
Date: 03/16/2007
UC San Diego Makes Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Expedition Microbial Metagenomic Data and Computational Tools Available to Scientists Worldwide
San Diego, CA and Washington, D.C., March 13, 2007 -- Scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have flipped the virtual switch on the first cyberinfrastructure customized to serve the marine microbial metagenomics community. At the heart of the cyberinfrastructure is a new, high-performance computer and storage complex funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and located in UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall, headquarters of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a partnership of UC San Diego and UC Irvine.
More than Six Million New Genes, Thousands of New Protein Families, and Incredible Degree of Microbial Diversity Discovered from First Phase of Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition
Date: 03/16/2007
Unprecedented amount of data deposited in CAMERA database; features enhanced tools to visualize and analyze metagenomic data
Rockville, MD, March 13, 2007 -- Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the publication of several studies from the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (GOS) in PLoS Biology (www.plosbiology.org ) detailing the discovery of millions of new genes, thousands of new protein families and specifically the characterization of thousands of new protein kinases from ocean microbes using whole environment shotgun sequencing and new computational tools. Researchers believe these data will lead to better understanding of key biological processes which could eventually offer new ideas for alternative energy production and could offer solutions to deal with climate change and other environmental issues.
Scripps, Venter Center, UCSD Hope to Build New Lab to Study Oceanographic Metagenomics
Date: 02/26/2007
New York, November 15, 2006 (GenomeWeb News ) - The Scripps Institution for Oceanography hopes to expand its partnership with the J. Craig Venter Institute and the University of California, San Diego, by building a new lab to study marine metagenomics, a Scripps researcher told GenomeWeb News this week.
John Orcutt said UCSD's Board of Regents will probably consider the project sometime in the middle of 2007.
Futures in Biotech 9: Ed Delong on Metagenomics
Date: 02/23/2007
November 23, 2007-- Our guest, Dr. Ed Delong, studies complex microbial communities in the Pacific ocean off the coast of Hawaii. In our discussion, he explains how genomics not only reveals important details on the nature of these marine microbes, but can also uncover genetic, biochemical, and even metabolic information with great potential for the development of new technologies, providing novel building blocks for synthetic biologists or genetic engineers. While seeking a better understanding of life in the oceans, Dr.
CAMERA Beta Release 0.7 to Debut January 23!
Date: 01/15/2007
La Jolla, California, January 15, 2007 -- The first public release of the CAMERA system is slated for January 23. The primary goal of CAMERA, the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis, is to provide the scientific community with metagenomics data and software analysis tools.
CAMERA Project First Persistent App for Smarr's OptIPuter
Date: 01/23/2006
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UCSD Partners with Venter Institute to Decipher Genetic Code of Marine Microbes
Date: 01/23/2006
Story: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2006/jan/01_23_camera.asp
UCSD, Venter Institute Launch Metagenomics Project
Date: 01/19/2006
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