Maria Eugénia Mata 1,† and Jose Tenreiro Machado 2,*,† 1 Faculdade de Economia, Nova School of Business and Economics, Campus de Campolide, Lisbon 1099-032, Portugal; [email protected] 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto 4249-015, Portugal * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +351-22-8340500 † These authors contributed equa...

[*] Prof. Z. L. Wang, Y.-F. Lin, J. H. Song, Dr. Y. Ding School of Materials Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0245 (USA) E-mail: [email protected] Prof. S.-Y. Lu, Y.-F. Lin Department of Chemical Engineering National Tsing Hua University Hsin-Chu, Taiwan 30013 (ROC) E-mail: [email protected] [**] This work was supported by the DOE BES (DE-FG02-...

Despite its global abundance, Bacillus pumilus is poorly studied. The Fairview strain was obtained from a methanogenic anaerobic coal digester. The draft genome sequence was 3.8 Mbp long and contained 3,890 protein-coding genes. Like the SAFR-032 strain, it includes B. pumilus-specific proteins that likely confer enhanced resistance to environmental stresses.

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