{"id":648,"date":"2009-11-18T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebreakthroughsatosu.wordpress.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-11-18T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:00:20","slug":"biologists-rally-to-sequence-neglected-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/2009\/11\/18\/biologists-rally-to-sequence-neglected-microbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologists rally to sequence &#8216;neglected&#8217; microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2009\/091117\/full\/news.2009.1093.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nature.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The GenBank sequence database, the central repository of all publicly available DNA sequences, counted its thousandth complete microbial genome this month. But a thousand genomes is only a small fraction of the diversity that exists in the microscopic world. Now, scientists want to fill in the gaps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The broad brush strokes of microbial diversity are not adequately represented in that first thousand,&#8221; says Stephen Giovannoni, a microbiologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. &#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely important that we sequence more.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2009\/091117\/full\/news.2009.1093.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nature.com: The GenBank sequence database, the central repository of all publicly available DNA sequences, counted its thousandth complete microbial genome this month. But a thousand genomes is only a small fraction of the diversity that exists in the microscopic world. Now, scientists want to fill in the gaps. &#8220;The broad brush strokes of microbial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microbiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}