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- EcoliWiki: Community-contributed content about E. coli
- Pathway/Genome Databases for 130 E. coli genomes are available at BioCyc.org including curated database for E. coli B Rel 606 and E. coli W3110.
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- PortEco also supports manual curation of Gene Ontology terms from published papers at EcoCyc.
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E. coli in the blogosphere
Recent posts from: PortEco blog, The Loom, Small Things Considered. Do you have a blog with an RSS feed that you'd like to add to our sources? Send us your URL. Or send us news items and we will add them.
A Good Defense Is Worth Stealing
Small Things Considered:
: by Moselio Schaechter
(3 weeks ago.):
One widely-used tactic for defense against phage and other mobile genetic elements is to deploy a CRISPR-Cas system (click here and here) to recognize and chop them into pieces. Based on sequenced genomes, 60% of Bacteria and 90% of Archaea have the wherewithal to dispatch invaders this way. But phages also have to protect themselves against enemies, including other mobile elements. Knowing a good thing when they see it?and they have seen it from the receiving end often?some phages have stolen the entire CRISPR-Cas structure and use it to inactivate genetic elements that would interfere with their replication.
2013 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting
PortEco blog > PortEco: by jimhu (3 months ago.):
News from the Phage meeting organizers:
Dear Colleagues,
Read more...Dear Colleagues,
Genes involved in Stress-induced Mutagenesis
PortEco blog > PortEco: by jimhu (5 months ago.):
In the new issue of Science, Al-Amun et al describe the identification and characterization of a network of genes involved in mut
Read more...CACAO at ASM General Meeting
PortEco blog » PortEco: by Brenley (11 months ago.):
Dr. Brenley McIntosh will be giving a talk at the ASM General Meeting in San Francisco, CA on
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