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… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many … more than two copies, a condition known as polyploidy. The multiple copies arise from past genome duplication, which …

… develop computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct … and viral diversity, leading to a better understanding of microbial communities and ecosystem function.  The … Our research focuses on the assembly of metagenomic sequence data into microbial genomes, which …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … power of genomics and molecular characterization offered at multiple user facilities stewarded by the DOE’s Office of … more nutrients from the environment. Demonstrating that the costs of infecting microbes and their impacts on the …

… human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, he developed … assembly, and improvement strategies for de novo sequencing of eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large … the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community driven science for JGI Plant Flagship Genomes …

… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The … themselves can also be modified. The best-known example of a modified DNA base is a methylation of the base cytosine … that unlike most flowering plants and animals, fungi lack gene body methylation. The analysis revealed that 5mC in …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … enzymes in specialized metabolism, organisms tend to evolve multiple copies of enzymes, similar to including half a … This analysis led them to identify 2,938 putative AT  genes. Within the AT genes identified across different …