A research team led by Professor Sung Ho Yoon of the Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology has presented the most current genome annotation of E. coli BL21(DE3), an organism widely used in scientific research and biotechnology. The results are expected to help researchers better understand the fundamental biology of the strain as well as develop biotechnological applications. The study was published in Nucleic Acids Research, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press, in an article titled “Genomic and transcriptomic landscape of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3).” The study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea’s Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Changes on Systems Metabolic Engineering for Biorefineries and the Strategic Initiative for Microbiomes in Agriculture and Food by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs.