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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Hey there. This is Dan again, … and actually get to the DNA sequence – sequences for the genes that code for the proteins that produce secondary …

… and other omics technologies.  The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent computational … advances in management, processing and visualization of “big data,” and artificial Intelligent/machine learning … breakthrough discoveries and catalyzing a major transition of biology into data science.  Research in the Kyrpides …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex … — suggest that they are advantageous enough to have evolved multiple times independently. The researchers also found a … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program (DEB-1542509 to S.D., DEB-1542486 to …

… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the … Many plants, sugarcane included, are polyploid and have multiple copies of chromosomes. Sugarcane accounts for 80% …

… DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger … University in British Columbia, Canada. This is the last of the podcasts we recorded in my hotel room at SIMB, or the … America brought to the UK? ROGER:  Yeah, it’s difficult to generalize, of course, but I felt overall that the British …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling … understanding of this symbiosis could offer improvements in multiple directions. On the fungi side, underground … symbiosis in other bioenergy grasses, like sorghum and switchgrass. We’re optimizing systems now, so that we can …

… JGI’s  MycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced fungal genomes, omics data and comparative … in the future? For other things than assembly size or gene count? (In the interactive tree) A: Sajeet is … data and metadata dumps available to download? A: We have multiple ways for programmatic access to MycoCosm. Please …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … terpene synthases and cytochrome P450s — that catalyze multiple products, resulting in many antibiotics. To uncover … plants in addition to maize, including the bioenergy crop switchgrass. The team confirmed just how important zealexins …

… 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 …