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5 unusual facts about J. Craig Venter Institute


Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis

CAMERA helps scientists access and work with data from the Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling Expedition.

Deinococcus radiodurans

The Craig Venter Institute has used a system derived from the rapid DNA repair mechanisms of D. radiodurans to assemble synthetic DNA fragments into chromosomes, with the ultimate goal of producing a synthetic organism they call Mycoplasma laboratorium.

J. Craig Venter Institute

Its bioinformatics group developed many of the pioneering software algorithms that were used to analyze these genomes, including the automatic gene finder GLIMMER and the sequence alignment program MUMmer.

JCVI

J. Craig Venter Institute, a multidisciplinary genomic-focused organization in the United States.

Synthetic genomics

The J. Craig Venter Institute has assembled a quasi-synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium yeast genome by recombination of 25 overlapping fragments in a single step.


Genomic Standards Consortium

Established in September 2005, this international community includes representatives from a range of major sequencing and bioinformatics centres (including NCBI, EMBL, DDBJ, JCVI, JGI, EBI, Sanger, FIG) and research institutions.


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