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… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the … them?    NANCY:  Yeah, okay. Of course. Fungi have a larger genome. The genetics was slower to begin with. So … has a lot to do with, well, the fact that it’s a eukaryotic genome, I guess, and the way DNA is activated. The promoter …

… was really before– or kind of around about when the first genome sequencing was done. But natural products– marine … unprecedented in the terms biosynthetic gene clusters and genome size. And they’re so complex. There’s so much still … process of almost finished characterizing them. We’ve got genome sequences, which are just incredible. We’ve looked at …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director … human chromosomes. After successful completion of the human genome project, Professor Dr. Rokhsar ’s team has continued … and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics …