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As  reported January 27, 2021 in  Nature , the team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, … —have expanded the network of common gardens and are exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted … a feedstock for biomass-based fuels was initially fostered by DOE’s Bioenergy Research Centers, which initiated the …

… diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to … a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them. The work was led by a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy …

… regulation, abiotic stress tolerance, and the mechanisms by which plants interact with their microbiomes. In … et. al. 2020 Gradual polyploid genome evolution revealed by a pan-genomic analysis of Brachypodium hybridum and its … reproducible physiology and depletion of soil metabolites by a model grass New Phytologist 222: 1149-1160 …

… informatic tools at no cost. The JGI and EMSL are supported by the DOE's Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and … often fail to express their BGC molecules in the lab. By engineering domesticated close relatives with the BGCs, … biology problems. For example, a group of JGI users led by Steven Hallam at the University of British Columbia, …

… layers. The architecture of these algorithms, inspired by communication networks found in nature, allows machines … Biologists aim to capitalize on these kinds of abilities by applying them to sequencing data. At the workshop, Volkan … (Prashant Pandey of CRD). The workshop was organized by Kristofer Bouchard, neuro- and data scientist in …

… — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI researchers and … has opened vast windows into specific activities catalyzed by microbial communities. By pairing RNA or DNA sequencing with tracings of stable, …

DGR could mutate the virus’ tail fiber proteins, and thereby allow them to embrace different cells. Since that … been clear. Now, to answer these questions, a team led by scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … available data, approximately half of which was generated by the JGI, to uncover these DGRs. DGRs were found in single …

… in 29 U.S. states and 35 countries. (Graphic: Neil Byers) The JGI launched the 1000 Fungal Genomes (1KFG) … Over 1,000 species have been nominated for the project by more than 100 participants. Roughly 700 have been … and complex. The first publication of a genome generated by the OGG initiative — for Ceratopteris richardii, or …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial … no one’s ever had a structure of before,” said Crysten Blaby-Haas, a research scientist at the JGI and Molecular … heme molecule. In the protein structure Grosjean and Blaby-Haas studied, that sandwich has an additional outer layer …

… to any type of lignin breakdown — and lignin breakdown by anaerobic fungi therefore thought to be impossible.  And … which requires getting through the lignin.  Researchers led by Michelle O’Malley’s lab at the University of California … on the atomic level, was generated at JBEI and analyzed by the GLBRC. By providing snapshots of the types of …