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… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale … cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The …

… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of … to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science … plants in addition to maize, including the bioenergy crop switchgrass. The team confirmed just how important zealexins … sesquiterpenoids, National Science Foundation Plant-Biotic Interactions Program (grant no. 1758976 to E.S. and P.Z.) …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same … eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant viruses …

… Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … called inoviruses, which are filamentous viruses with small, single-stranded DNA genomes and a unique chronic … turn affecting the microbe’s own eukaryote host. As their small genomes can be easily manipulated through genetic …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced … RNA-Seq assembly. RNA-Seq is a technique for profiling the small fraction of a genome that contains transcribed … “This is the first iteration of this program and we started small with just two people,” Visel says. “They were directly …

… This single environmental trigger highlights efficiency for users requiring multiple omics methods to examine microbial chemical … dozens of growth conditions and found that adding a small amount of common salt to the Streptomyces coelicolor … This work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE …

… yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their … work and how healthy they are, a recent data set  outlined in  Scientific Data connects molecular features to … Metabolomics allowed them to then examine the chemicals and small molecules produced by the trees and associated …

… A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment … cell sorting to sort cells into several small pools, followed by whole genome amplification and … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …