In
a perspective piece published in the journal Science, Eddy Rubin,
Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a
DOE Office of Science User Facility, along with Microbial Program Head Tanja
Woyke, discusses why the time is right to apply genomic technologies to
discover new life on Earth. In this perspective they propose the division of
microbial life on Earth into three categories: explored, unexplored, and
undiscovered. The first can be grown in the laboratory. The second encompasses
the uncultivated organisms from environmental samples known only by their
molecular signatures. The third, the focus of the perspective, is the
yet-undiscovered life that up until now has eluded detection.
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