Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus Strain F, Isolated from Ancient Permafrost.

Bacillus cereus strain F was isolated and cultured from a sample of permafrost, aged presumably about 3 million years, on the Mammoth Mountain (62°56'N, 133°59'E). These genome data provide the basis to investigate Bacillus cereus F, identified as a long-term survivor of the extremely cold and close environment.

A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucleases and their genes.

A nomenclature is described for restriction endonucleases, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucleases and related genes and gene products. It provides explicit categories for the many different Type II enzymes now identified and provides a system for naming the putative genes found by sequence analysis of microbial genomes.