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… prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with … browser that allows other researchers to study the genomes and predict the metabolic abilities of these … than 400 cultured rumen prokaryotes from the  Hungate1000 project . They also used the tool to predict possible …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial … In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … virus had been infecting the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from their sample — a small proportion of the …

Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project scientist and then as a research scientist on …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … to Z.-H.C.). B.A.A. and D.W.S. acknowledge funding for this project from the Ambrose Monell Foundation. … Ceratopteris …

… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … Program , sequences of several hundred green millet plant genomes were generated, though the final analyses focused on … JGI group has been wonderful to collaborate with, and this [project] wouldn’t have been possible without their …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus … For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … in five years, have come out of the JGI-supported project. “The JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program has been … is famous for its work sequencing human and environmental genomes. But we now have these DNA synthesis capabilities …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … viruses,” said Simon Roux , a JGI scientist and one of the project co-leads. “But same as DNA viruses, RNA viruses … datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then looked into …

Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in … the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research … Avinash:   JGI puts huge efforts into generating reference genomes for new species allowing it to fill gaps in the …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … within their walls they have both the machinery to make products such as proteins, and the mechanisms for … produced BDO at higher productivity rates than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the …

… has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene … Understanding the evolution of polyploidy, and how genomes respond to extra chromosome and gene copies, will …