<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>This conference brought the microbial genomics community together to share their
most up-to-the-minute achievements, so much so that several talks cannot be covered
here, as the work discussed has not yet been published. This meeting report
has details of a cross-section of the talks from the sessions on ‘Genome analysis
and comparative genomics’, ‘Computational genomics’ and ‘Functional genomics’,
ranging from studies on complex environmental samples, to specific pathogenic
bacteria, to yeasts.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2004 Aug-Oct; 5(6-7):491-496