by Christoph — A still some­what un­fa­mil­iar term is float­ing around: the pan-genome. In 2005, Tet­telin et al.. coined the term along with genome analy­ses of eight Strep­to­coc­cus agalac­tiae strains, and Merry in­tro­duced it to this blog, some time back al­ready. To­day, a key­word search in PubMed re­turns roughly 200 hits – 29 alone…