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The complete sequencing of a soil metagenome, (i.e. the genome of all prokaryotes inhabiting the soil environment) is now an achievable objective that requires a strong international collaboration including soil microbiologists, geneticists, bioinformaticians etc. Sequencing of the soil metagenome will represent the third major microbial sequencing effort after the human microbiome and the marine metagenome. The soil environment represents a higher complexity than any other environment on earth and a concerted international effort is required to obtain the soil metagenome.

Meetings

TerraGenome Roundtable @ ISMB-13

Dates: Monday evening, 23 August 2010
Location: Seattle
URL: Roundtable
URL: ISME-13

October 2010 2nd Argonne Soil Metagenomics Workshop

Workshop Dates: October 6-8, 2010.
Location: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, TCS conference center
Registration: here (open until September 1st)
URL: Workshop page

International Symposium on Soil Metagenomics

Workshop Dates: December 8-10, 2010.
Location: Braunschweig, Germany
Abstract deadline:September 17th
URL: Workshop page

Soil metagenomics metadata

The efforts to describe soil metagenome standards under the auspices of the Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) are described here: soil metagenomics metadata standards.

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