Garcia Andrew, Rivera Romar, Simpson Anna C, Singh Nitin K, Green Stefan, Venkateswaran Kasthuri
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Jun 11;13(6):e0126523. doi: 10.1128/mra.01265-23. Epub 2024 May 14.
The genome of a spore-forming bacterium isolated from the spacecraft assembly facility of the Phoenix mission, was generated via hybrid assembly by merging short and long reads. Examining this genome may shed light on strategies to minimize the risk of contaminating extraterrestrial environments with Earth-based microorganisms.
从“凤凰号”任务的航天器组装设施中分离出的一种形成孢子的细菌的基因组,是通过合并短读段和长读段进行混合组装生成的。研究这个基因组可能有助于揭示将地球微生物污染外星环境的风险降至最低的策略。