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… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …

… has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for … production of biofuels and renewable chemicals, developing genome engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating …

… A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science … by Tanja Woyke at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … to sort cells into several small pools, followed by whole genome amplification and shotgun sequencing. The team first …

… diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … “While computationally derived MAGs have been a revolutionary tool for microbiology, it's a call to balance,” …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting … they reconstructed and examined over six hundred bacterial genomes — mainly actinobacteria, as well as proteobacteria, …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI … published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, …