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… Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then biochemically characterized by a team … and release attack enzymes in the form of Cas enzymes to cut the DNA and disable the virus. In Science , a team led … the seminal Cas9 proteins cleave double-stranded DNA. Co-first author Lucas Harrington was a graduate student from …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … of Tel Aviv University, one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI … sequence data, was absolutely critical for the success of this effort and so was the acknowledgement of their …

… of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … of sex determination could also lead to new approaches to accelerate flowering, which can speed the pace of breeding. …

… and Asaf Salamov were part of a team that presented the first large analysis of an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, … Nature Genetics, the work is part of a long-term project to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of more than 300 … Institute for Biotechnology that worked on an updated reference genome for Theobroma cacao, the tree that produces …

… Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and … proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals come from … to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then …

… a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to discover what … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences … and metatranscriptome sequences, as well as individual reference fungal genome sequences assembled as part of its …

… time. They also discovered more than 6,000 mitochondrial sequences previously unrecognized within existing public … core gene in nearly half of those same genomes. The team first applied the workflow to a curated reference set of over 300 genomes spanning the fungal …