title: Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacterial and Archaeal Type Strains, Phase III: the genomes of soil and plant-associated and newly described type strains.
abstract: The Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) project was launched by the JGI in 2007 as a pilot project to sequence about 250 bacterial and archaeal genomes of elevated phylogenetic diversity. Herein, we propose to extend this approach to type strains of prokaryotes associated with soil or plants and their close relatives as well as type strains from newly described species. Understanding the microbiology of soil and plants is critical to many DOE mission areas, such as biofuel production from biomass, biogeochemistry, and carbon cycling. We are also targeting type strains of novel species while they are being described. Since 2006, about 630 new species have been described per year, many of which are closely aligned to DOE areas of interest in soil, agriculture, degradation of pollutants, biofuel production, biogeochemical transformation, and biodiversity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Greece.
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Whitman
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Woyke
authors.affiliation: School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
authors.forename: Hans-Peter
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Klenk
authors.affiliation: China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Yuguang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA ; Current addresses: Novozymes North America Inc., Durham 27709, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Timothy G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Lilburn
authors.affiliation: American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA ; Current addresses: Microbiologics, St. Cloud, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Brian J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection and Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: De Vos
authors.affiliation: BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection and Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vandamme
authors.affiliation: University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Eisen
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, and NamesforLife, LLC, East Lansing, MI, USA.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Garrity
authors.affiliation: Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hugenholtz
authors.affiliation: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Nikos C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
keywords: Genome sequencing; Prokaryotes; Type stains