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… scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the … U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https:// …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the … a defect in the approach: CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease …

… been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this … high-quality draft genomes with >90% completeness. These results, noted JGI User Programs Deputy Susannah Tringe , … They added that DAS Tool’s flexibility in integrating results from both manual and automated binning methods also …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … who don’t engage in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  BMC Genomics . To explore the genomes, … (for the fungus genome) to aid analysis. Many of the results were unexpected. For example, lichenologists …

… in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley …

… mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … alike. Want to learn more about their experience? Watch the short video below. Video Transcript: Ti’Yanna Watson : Hi, … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. …

… Interns contributed to a number of projects, from refining lab protocols at the bench to … Mentors: Bikash Shrestha, Crysten Blaby-Haas Project:  Intermolecular isopeptide bond detection Socheata Hour … Chemoreceptors for Neurotransmitter Sensing   Watch this short video below to see what some of the interns had to say …

… communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … . They differentiate between required information and terms, such as isotopes involved in an experiment, and … we do this better? How do we improve data accuracy and make results from different SIP studies easier to compare?” said …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers … around the world have collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …