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… technological advancements that facilitate the shift from uncovering microbial novelties to deciphering metabolic and …

… poorly-studied algal and viral genomes, and integrate with key DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research … Dick of The Ohio State University aims to study plant drought resilience in the Sahel, an arid region of West Africa. The staple crop there is millet, grown without fertilizer and under erratic rainfall …

… the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which … set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell or tissue at a specific time or under specific … included datasets from two species, one of which is sweet sorghum Rio from a JGI Community Science Program project and …

… was applied to a recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps …

… considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of producing at least one reference genome for … Office of Science User Facility, and others like it, are uncovering the true diversity of the fungal kingdom. The …

Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. … to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to sample the … at once — rather than cultivating a single microorganism within a lab setting.  Roland Hatzenpichler is an associate …

… book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers … most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the cell, … the RNA virome However, this is now real Big Data, we are dealing with billions of sequences, and soon, with …

… switchgrass transformation pipeline and, in collaboration with industrial partners, generated hundreds of transgenic … Varoquaux, et. al.N. 2019 Transcriptomic analysis of field-droughted sorghum from seedling to maturity reveals biotic and …

… and Kevin Solomon of the University of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the … challenges. She’s worked with the JGI on poplar and sorghum projects, specifically for generating libraries of … institutions, now defined as those that don’t spend $50 million in annual research and don’t award at least 70 …

… a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue … Because microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study … up the pace at which researchers can extract the bioenergy secrets they hold. HT-SIP is a capability available to …