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Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base … in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes in protein structures and … at the 5th position on its carbon ring, or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … A 2021 Nature paper announcing a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using samples …

… with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI researchers and collaborators work to … are present in a sample, to generate data about which organisms are active, and which microbes are eating what,  … a  Minimum Information for any Stable Isotope Probing Sequence (MISIP) . They differentiate between required …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the …

… which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … and fungi identified in this study was the ability of these organisms to degrade aromatic compounds from burned … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …