Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recent Work Title Mutant phenotypes for thousands of bacterial genes of unknown function. Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7c96t04w Journal Nature, 557(7706) ISSN 0028-0836 Authors Price, Morgan N Wetmore, Kelly M Waters, R Jordan et al. Publication Date 2018-05-16 DOI 10.1038/s41586-018-0124-0 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Mutant Phenotypes for Thousands of Bacterial Genes of Unknown Function 12 13 Morgan N. Price1, Kelly M. Wetmore1, R. Jordan Waters2, Mark Callaghan1, Jayashree Ray1, 14 Hualan Liu1, Jennifer V. Kuehl1, Ryan A. Melnyk1, Jacob S. Lamson1, Yumi Suh1, Hans K. 15 Carlson1, Zuelma Esquivel1, Harini Sadeeshkumar1, Romy Chakraborty3, Grant M. Zane4, 16 Benjamin E. Rubin5, Judy D. Wall4, Axel Visel2,6, James Bristow2, Matthew J. Blow2,*, Adam P. 17 Arkin1,7,*, Adam M. Deutschbauer1,8,* 18 19 20 1Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National 21 Laboratory 22 2Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 23 3Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 24 4Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri 25 5Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego 26 6School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced 27 7Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley 28 8Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley 29 *To whom correspondence should be addressed: 30 MJB (
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[email protected]) 33 34 Website for interactive analysis of mutant fitness data: 35 http://fit.genomics.lbl.gov/ 36 37 Website with supplementary information and bulk data downloads: 38 http://genomics.lbl.gov/supplemental/bigfit/ 39 40 41 42 1 43 44 45 Summary 46 One third of all protein-coding genes from bacterial genomes cannot be annotated with a 47 function.