Minimal Cell Project (MCP)
Synthetic E. coli genome project
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=11932248
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16645050
synthetic
mycoplasma genome projectThe Minimal Gene Complement of Mycoplasma genitalium (1995)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/270/5235/397
Genome Transplantation in Bacteria: Changing One Species to Another (2007)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1144622
Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome (2008)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1151721
Creation
of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome (2010)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190719
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190719