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… TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated metadata matters. …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This …

… The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained insights on why the dry rot ( Serpula lacrymans ) is so destructive in … Serpula species, S. himantioides from Europe, that was sequenced and analyzed by the JGI. The researchers found …

… The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is committed to advancing the … the HGP, the JGI has sustained its commitment to uploading sequence data generated on behalf of its user community to … has managed the growing corpus of sequence data for all organisms as a public good available to all users for any …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to help sequence the human genome. Today, the Sanger Institute … hot topics in genomics.” And it makes sense to Woyke why JGI would have this role. “We work with leaders in …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI … lives.  But for researchers who study viruses that infect organisms much smaller than humans, like bacteria, this … hydrothermal vents – and computationally identifying which sequences represent viruses that were present in the sample. …