Synthetic E. coli genome project

Frederic Blattner lab http://www.genome.wisc.edu/information/fblattner.html

E. coli Genome Project http://www.genome.wisc.edu/

Key publications: The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12 (1997) Science 277:1453-1474. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=9278503

Engineering a reduced Escherichia coli genome (2002) Genome Research 12:640-647. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=11932248

Emergent properties of reduced-genome Escherichia coli (2006) Science 312:1044-1046. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16645050