Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610.
Mycologia. 2013 Nov-Dec;105(6):1339-49. doi: 10.3852/13-196. Epub 2013 Aug 8.
Genome-enabled mycology is a rapidly expanding field that is characterized by the pervasive use of genome-scale data and associated computational tools in all aspects of fungal biology. Genome-enabled mycology is integrative and often requires teams of researchers with diverse skills in organismal mycology, bioinformatics and molecular biology. This issue of Mycologia presents the first complete fungal genomes in the history of the journal, reflecting the ongoing transformation of mycology into a genome-enabled science. Here, we consider the prospects for genome-enabled mycology and the technical and social challenges that will need to be overcome to grow the database of complete fungal genomes and enable all fungal biologists to make use of the new data.
基因组真菌学是一个快速发展的领域，其特点是在真菌生物学的各个方面广泛使用基因组规模的数据和相关的计算工具。基因组真菌学是综合性的，通常需要具有不同技能的研究团队，包括有机真菌学、生物信息学和分子生物学。本期《Mycologia》发表了该杂志历史上的第一批完整真菌基因组，反映了真菌学向基因组真菌学科学的持续转变。在这里，我们考虑了基因组真菌学的前景，以及为了扩大完整真菌基因组数据库并使所有真菌生物学家能够利用新数据，需要克服的技术和社会挑战。
