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… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … phages to help the bacterial host resist foreign genetic elements. In some cases, Roux and his colleagues found that …

… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Kyrpides led the development of the genome analysis and Bioinformatics core at Integrated … his postdoctoral studies with Carl Woese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Argonne National …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container … the equivalent of 10-27 billion gasoline gallons if target yields could be achieved. Researchers at many national … This research was supported by the Bioenergy Technology Office (BETO) within the Department of Energy’s Office of …

… Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates … in GOLD. “Besides these, he curated several small sets of phylogeny, biosample metadata tasks we assigned.”       …

… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for … on secondary metabolites. He is also on the Leadership Team of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative and served as …

… expertise and infrastructure enable a broad community of scientists and engineers to leverage our data to develop new algorithms, models and tools in support of DOE mission priorities. Data discoverability and … the JGI will move to a new login service, requiring the use of an ORCID account with two-factor authentication enabled …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," chemical compounds that often … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful … from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… studies.  This conference is inspired by the vision of standardized fabricated ecosystems (EcoFABs) designed for precise manipulation and reproducible experimentation of microbiome dynamics. Together, we will explore …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers … resource, but also yielding and supporting many high-impact publications ,” emphasized Markus Göker, who managed the …

… a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile … to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …