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… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the … each representing a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies highlight the multiple advances …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics production for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the metabolomics … B.S in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; …

… Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number … a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from …

… Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, … technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the …

… Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science … form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the … This study was supported by a PhD scholarship from the China Scholarship Council to …

… a group of tiny algae, are also known as “living opals” because of the strange, beautiful properties of their silica shells. But what genes are responsible for such mesmerizing exteriors? Setsuko Wakao and …

… The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. … Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio …

… JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists … send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing …