Nel 1999 TIGR pubblicò la sequenza del poliestremofilo radioresistente "Deinococcus radiodurans". ###>TIGR scientist Claire Fraser led the projects to sequence the second bacterium, "Mycoplasma genitalium" in 1995, and less than a year later TIGR's Carol led the project to sequence the first genome of an Archaeal species, "Methanococcus jannaschii".