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… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out …

… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries Melainabacteria and Sericytochromatia, members of the same clade … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of … Obsidian Pool hot spring. The researchers applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small …

The BioSANS instrument is at the Center for Structural Molecular Biology … the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory hosted a webinar to showcase how researchers can gain access to the … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. … or activate certain genes and assess how these edits affect functionality.  CRAGE allows for the transplanting of these …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Scanning the California oak woodlands from the air, large swaths …

Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most … known as biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs.) As reported in the recent Database issue of the journal Nucleic Acids …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for …   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among … virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact … of the key community participants and enabling future metagenomics studies.   … The sequencing project was funded by …