Fungal Genetics Reports #56, 2009

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Manual annotation of the Phytophthora ramorum and P. sojae genomes has identified 136, and 132 members, respectively, indicating that the ABC superfamily is comparable in size to the Arabidopsis and rice genomes. The high level of synteny that was observed between these oomycete genomes extends to the ABC superfamily where 107 orthologous pairs were identified by phylogenetic analysis. The larg...

Asthma genetics and genomics 2009.

Asthma Genetic Association studies have been plagued by methodologic problems that are common in all studies of complex traits: small sample size, lack of replication, and lack of control of population stratification. Despite this, the field has identified 43 replicated genes from association studies. The most frequently replicated are: TNF alpha, IL4, FCERB, Adam 33, and GSTP1. Several genes h...

From genetics to genomics: fungal collections at the Fungal Genetics Stock Center

The Fungal Genetics Stock Center (FGSC) has been described as an Open Source Repository supporting over 50 years of research into some of the most fundamental questions in modern biology. From its origins allied to studies of the nature of genes, through the first efforts to associate DNA sequence with genes, to its current position as a repository for nearly 75 strains with fully sequenced gen...

Late - Breaking Reports 56 th Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference

Reports of the AAAI 2009 Fall Symposia

, by a one-day AI funding seminar. The titles of the seven symposia were as follows: An informal reception was held on Thursday, November 5. A general plenary session, in which the highlights of each symposium were presented, was held on Friday, November 6. The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind requires that we better understand at a computational leve...