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… Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science … form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the ancestor to eelgrass underwent a whole genome duplication event, doubling all of its chromosomes.  …

… of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, … strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This program has … production of biofuels and renewable chemicals, developing genome engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint … known as polyploidy. The multiple copies arise from past genome duplication, which occurs in two basic ways. In …

… Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being … recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 representative genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest class of fungi, by … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …