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… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … she said. Listen to study co-author Dan Udwary talk about genome mining using the GEM catalog in  this episode … draft genomes are imperfect, they can still reveal a lot about the biology and diversity of uncultured microbes.” …

… forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way … from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across a … look like a year after a fire. It also opens questions about what the soil microbiome looks like over longer times …

… wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of videos produced by JGI … Click the image to watch the video … Intern: Brendan Blasius (undergraduate) Mentor: Guohong "Albert" Wu Click the …

… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could … they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. … the globe, then using these sequences to make inferences about the biogeographic distribution of these viruses in the …

… the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what it means in a … where we’re moving from when my father was born, of about 2 billion people on the planet, to you know, within my …

… ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae … feedstocks that can thrive in saltwater mitigates concerns about diverting resources such as arable land and fresh … to various stresses, and its transcriptome to learn more about which genes expression patterns. The analysis led to …

… of the five major lineages of cotton;  G. tomentosum ,  G. mustelinum , and  G. darwinii are the others. All of these … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … is one such example.” Jones noted that he talks to growers about Cotton Inc.’s long-term investment in crop research. …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven … Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as … summer projects. Each intern also mentioned what they loved about their internship. Efosa Omorogieva : “The entire …

… sequence to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year history. In 2019, the countdown has begun to the … of the JGI and KBase in the heart of the Lab’s 200-acre campus—with the big move from leased space in Walnut Creek, … prospective partners to generate awareness of and clarity about the JGI’s strategic directions,” said Mouncey. “In …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … genes from isolates, there isn’t much scientists can tell about its function or its origin. As a result, these genes … it is very hard to have 100 sequences from different locations or habitats that align very well, randomly,” …

… specific conditions – in over a dozen plants. To learn more about the project, HudsonAlpha’s Research Communication … author Avinash Sreedasyam, a HudsonAlpha senior scientist, about the project. The story is reposted here in modified … It was developed to improve plant genome annotations at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI)*, …

… leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs … 9 (1), 1-9 Roux et al. (2018) Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG). Nature …