Microbial Genome Sequencing: Genome Sequences for Four Phototrophic Prokaryotes

将对四个光合细菌进行完整的基因组测序。这些生物的基因组序列将填补现有光合作用生物基因组数据的巨大空白，有助于理解光合作用的起源和早期进化。此外，将获得的数据将对了解全球光合作用生产力具有农业应用和环境重要性。光合作用与固氮有着深刻的进化联系，许多光合作用细菌都具有固氮能力。由于缺乏数据，我们理解这些复杂的进化关系和代谢过程的能力受到限制。这项基因组计划将填补光合作用及其与其他生物过程关系的进化图景中的主要空白。在这个项目中将被测序的生物体是Modesticalum.、Rosebacter denitriicans、Rhodocista centenaria和Acaryo氯is marina。该项目将积极吸引大量的生物信息学学生参与注释工作。生物信息学研究生将使用原始基因组数据作为“真实世界”课堂练习的一部分，以确定代谢途径或运输蛋白质家族。该项目团队包括每个生物体的专家，包括罗伯特·布兰肯希普、迈克尔·梅迪根、托马斯·比蒂、卡尔·鲍尔、三室真魔和宫下秀明，以及由杰弗里·图奇曼领导的经验丰富的测序中心。该团队还将与亚利桑那州科学中心的公共科学博物馆合作，开发公共展示和教师培训材料，旨在分别向普通公众和学龄儿童传达微生物基因组学的兴奋和好处。

Complete genome sequencing will be done for four photosynthetic bacteria. Genome sequences of these organisms will fill large gaps in the available genomic data for photosynthetic organisms and will help to understand the origin and early evolution of photosynthesis. In addition, the data that will be obtained will have agricultural applications and environmental importance for understanding global photosynthetic productivity. Photosynthesis has a deep evolutionary connection to nitrogen fixation and many photosynthetic bacteria are capable of nitrogen fixation. Our ability to understand these complex evolutionary relationships and metabolic processes is limited by a lack of data. This genome project will fill major gaps in the evolutionary picture of photosynthesis and its relation to other biological processes. The organisms that will be sequenced in this project are Heliobacterium modesticaldum, Roseobacter denitrificans, Rhodocista centenaria and Acaryochloris marina. The project will actively engage a large number of bioinformatics students in the annotation efforts. Bioinformatics graduate students will use the raw genome data as part of "real world" class exercises to identify metabolic pathways or families of transport proteins. The project team includes experts on each organism, including Robert Blankenship, Michael Madigan, Thomas Beatty, Carl Bauer, Mamoro Mimuro and Hideaki Miyashita and a highly experienced sequencing center, directed by Jeffrey Touchman. The team will also partner with the public science museum at the Arizona Science Center to develop public displays and teacher training materials aimed at communicating the excitement and benefits of microbial genomics to the general public and to school children, respectively.