Synthetic Mycoplasma genome project

J. Craig Venter Institute http://www.jcvi.org/

Hamilton O. Smith, synthetic biology group leader http://www.jcvi.org/research/

Press: JCVI Scientists Publish First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changing One Species to Another http://www.jcvi.org/press/news/news_2007_06_28.php

Key publications: The Minimal Gene Complement of Mycoplasma genitalium (1995) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/270/5235/397

Genome Transplantation in Bacteria: Changing One Species to Another (2007) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1144622

Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome (2008) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1151721

Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome (2010) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190719