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… from plants, microorganisms, and environmental samples using targeted and untargeted approaches. The webinar … would depend on the sample. However, we don’t do this because they typically contain salts and other contaminants that … with metabolomics analysis.  Q: Can you give us an idea about the scale of an average study? How many samples are …

… and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Dothideomycetes species, and also provides more information about speciation events. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … Intern: Brendan Blasius (undergraduate) Mentor: Guohong "Albert" Wu Click 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 …

… (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 …

… 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)*, …

… development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a resource for … how we think of things that we thought we knew everything about,” said Lovell.  In future work, a pangenome offers … — including understanding of traits we know little about.  Researchers from Colorado State University, DIRAD, …