Click on the image above or click here (https://youtu.be/iSEEw4Vs_B4) to watch a CRISPR Whiteboard Lesson from the Innovative Genomics Institute, this one focuses on the PAM sequence.

October 19, 2018

Mining Metagenomes for Cas Proteins

Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically characterized at UC Berkeley and the… [Read More]

At high temperature, S. paradoxus cells die in the act of cell division, as seen by the dyads with cell bodies shriveled away from the outer cell wall. (Images by Carly Weiss, courtesy of the Brem Lab)

October 8, 2018

Mapping Heat Resistance in Yeasts

A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept… [Read More]

The reference sequence is useful for mapping the genes involved in sugar production and for identifying different variants on different chromosomes, information that can be used to assemble a more complex and more realistic polyploid sugarcane genome now underway. (Rufino Uribe, CC-SA 2.0)

September 24, 2018

First Monoploid Reference Sequence of Sugarcane

Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome. The Science Most… [Read More]

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Mining Metagenomes for Cas Proteins

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First Monoploid Reference Sequence of Sugarcane

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