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… written in a yet-to-be-deciphered language. Researchers with the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute … Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about 200 publications linking evolutionary history and innovations … struggle to identify and classify new species from environmental samples. Meanwhile, even well-studied genomes …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last … Nikos Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova and Simon Roux, along with data from a consortium that included Susannah Tringe … as a Nature Microbiology study that leveraged population genomics to investigate archaeal hitchhikers and found that, …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa … metric tons . The global chocolate brands couldn’t exist without cocoa.  But today the plant is under threat due to … of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is collaborating with others to develop healthier and more productive cacao …

… the appropriate contextual information, or metadata, stored with them. GOLD provides manually curated metadata resources for organisms and environmental samples. The database aggregates relevant … a broad range of activities from proposal intake to publication. Information is also obtained and cross-checked …

… The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do … a serendipitous partnership. The class decided to do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study … and organic carbon concentration. From Field Studies to Publication Together as a class, the students learned about …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last … multi-institutional research team that combined field data with a reference switchgrass genome to associate climate … past year, through programs including the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program and the DOE Office of Science …

… repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples around the world, expanding the known … and the  DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the environmental samples without needing to isolate individual organisms, using …