by Elio — We don't know about you, but we've be­come pretty blase about the stream of pa­pers, each with the cus­tom­ary two dozen or more au­thors, re­port­ing the com­pleted genome of yet an­other mi­crobe. But the re­cent one on the ar­chaeon Ig­nic­oc­cus hos­pi­talis mer­its spe­cial at­ten­tion.