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… to practice and develop presentation skills as well as build their network in the field of genomics and scientific … students worked on ranged far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to …

… Researchers collaborating across multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Los Alamos National … and analyzed its metabolome to understand the metabolic processes involved in responding to various stresses, and …

… to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome sequence resource of rumen microorganisms . Thanks to the … this study, researchers around the world are continuing to build on Hungate 1000 genomes and cultures to work toward a … to provide colleagues at the Salk Institute with genomic DNA samples from Ruminococcus flavefaciens (XPD3002). With …

… on green algae. “The Chlamy genome launched over a dozen of new Chlamydomonas genome-related Community Science Program … Chlamydomonas has this related protein that’s also causing DNA damage,” Merchant said, “that something is wrong with … in the organism.”   The upcoming paper also features a streamlined inventory of Chlamydomonas gene names. Sean …

… environmental challenges. Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and … as having “a revolutionary impact on the life sciences.” Building upon CRISPR-Cas9 work, the Doudna lab at UC … CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna noted in her …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the … By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the JGI united … installed at the  Integrative Genomics Building , JGI’s newly-built home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab …

… featured keynote speeches from Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley … ways that her team is looking to use CRISPR-Cas9 to solve new problems. According to Doudna, the CRISPR-Cas9 … analysis to identify and characterize TEs, developing software to annotate them in plants other than maize …

… ramorum genome. The JGI generated the organism’s DNA code in tandem with a closely-related plant pathogen … of millions of trees in California alone. With the genome sequence in hand, the UC team led the charge to develop … in their neighborhoods and nearby forests with the right tools to track infection. The parallel development of the …

… They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  … affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also affect ecosystems by killing … for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, most other tools have focused on identifying only specific plasmids or …

… The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE … Genome Institute has continued its journey to realize our new vision to, “ Lead genomic innovation for a sustainable … 871 Terabases of sequence We synthesized 9.7 Megabases of DNA We processed 13,700 metabolomics samples With our users, …