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… of the most commonly found carbon biopolymers in nature, second only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food … data portal. The IMG suite is a community resource for comparative analysis and annotation of all publicly … distinct from similar proteins found in archaea, fungi or bacteria. Certain similarities with bacterial counterparts …

… Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy for Science Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation … Axel Visel is the JGI's Deputy for Science Programs. Click to learn more about our seven science … direction, leadership, and oversight for all JGI scientific programs. The Deputy of Science is also responsible for …

… of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them back to the lab. The weedy grass was green millet (Setaria … an ortholog of known genes, “The gene has now been mapped back in maize as involved in leaf angle,” noted Schmutz. … “It’s a nice example of de novo discovery and then mapping back to identify candidate genes.”  Through the JGI’s …

… DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to … would form a part of the students’ thesis,” she says. “Second, we want our students to gain the opportunity to see … that would allow users to simultaneously run several programs for RNA-Seq assembly to determine which is best for …

… into an expression vector to create an sgRNA plasmid library. The team was then able to screen for the most … growth. By contrast, an initial screen using an unvetted library (with both active and inactive sgRNAs) appeared to …

… sojae, which imperils soybean harvests. The subsequent comparative analysis of these two pathogens, led by the JGI … in tracing the genetic signature of the organism back to commercial nursery plants in Europe, when seemingly … of SOD, the debilitated trees become susceptible to other secondary assaults, such as those posed by bark-boring …