Genome Update: alignment of bacterial chromosomes

There are four new microbial genomes listed in this month's Genome Update, three belonging to Gram-positive bacteria and one belonging to an archaeon that lives at pH 0; all of these genomes are listed in Table 1⇓. The method of genome comparison this month is that of genome alignment and, as an example, an alignment of seven Staphylococcus aureus genomes and one Staphylococcus epidermidis genome is presented.