DOE '99 Oakland Highlights
Meeting Intro
HGP Progress, Challenges
Joint Genome Institute
JGI Facility Opening
Sequencing
Device Speeds Sequencing
Chromosome 19 Genes
Functional Genomics
Sample Prep System
Informatics
Education & Bioethics
Microbial Genomes
Next Meeting Feb. 2000

Genome Project
Accelerated Timetable
FY1999 Budgets
JGI Refits Facility
Progress

In the News 
 Drosophila Near Completion
Directors, Researchers Receive Awards
Chromosomes 21, 22 Near Finish
Human MHC Region Sequenced
Mouse Probes Aid Mapping
Genetic Testing Committee
DOE Labs & Biomedicine
Biomedical Engineering Proposals
Drug Firms Create SNP Resource
SBIR 1999 Awards
HUGO News
1999 Hollaender Winners

Microbial Genomics 
EcoCyc Database for E. coli
Developing EcoCyc
Thermotoga Sequence
Clostridium Sequenced
Microbial Gene Finder
Neisseria Sequence
Microbial Web Sites

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
Education, Counseling Foundation
 ELSI Studies
ELSI Retrospective
Protecting Privacy

Informatics 
MGI 2.2 Released
DNA Repository

Web, Other Resources, Publications 
Metabolic Pathways
New Staden Package
PDB Newsletter
Polymorphism Database
Bacterial Protein Database
DOE BER Publications
HGP Information Web
Biotechnology Business Webs
Behavioral Genetics
Office of Science Reports
Articles on Genetics

Funding 
Genome Research Funding

Meeting Calendars & Acronyms 
Genome & Biotech Meetings 
Training Courses & Workshops 
Acronyms 

HGN archives & subscriptions 
HGP Information home

Microbial Genomics

Developing EcoCyc

The EcoCyc project was conceived in 1990 by Peter Karp (then at SRI International) and Monica Riley (Marine Biological Laboratory) to provide a central, integrative resource for the quickly changing knowledge about E.coli's genes and metabolism. Karp's group developed Pathway Tools, a software environment that included but went beyond genome sequence data by integrating richly curated information on gene function and pathways. Riley's group searched the biomedical literature for material on E.coli enzymes and pathways. An early task was to determine what to gather about each enzyme and pathway and to design a database schema that would accommodate that information. Riley published a system for categorizing E.coli genes according to their function; this and other similar systems have since been used by genome project researchers to classify their annotated genes. Kenneth Rudd (National Center for Biotechnology Information) contributed his collection of all known E.coli DNA sequences and assembled them into an ordered set of maximal sequences that were pinned to the Kohara physical restriction map of the E.coli chromosome. After Fred Blattner's group at the University of Wisconsin completed E.coli's DNA sequence, the data were integrated into EcoCyc.

The electronic form of the newsletter may be cited in the following style:
Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome News (v10n3-4).