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… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for …

… in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … cycles. The information gained from understanding the interactions between microbes, hosts, and their environments could be applied to multiple …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene … area in the DNA, to determine which targets might benefit from an intermediate level of expression. Similar to the …

Software engineers in the Synthetic Biology Informatics Group develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software includes: gRNA-SeqRET , an organism-agnostic CRISPR …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) initiative. “This project has helped to define the current shape of the microbial tree of … organisms to respond to environmental stresses or mediate interactions with each other (sometimes antagonistic ones, …