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… into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum …

… for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, … water. These vents are too deep in the sea to get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, contributed metagenomic sequencing to the study as well as  genome analysis, …

… mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends … virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do … a more systematic picture through single-cell and metagenomic sequencing. A team co-led by Mária Džunková, …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a … floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Researchers used a library-based approach to fine-tune gene expression. They tested … Alper and his team also applied this method to a production-based scenario, in this case, the production of …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could 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 male and female plants, each representing a single set of …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To … hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a … communities in New Mexico via leakage from a local dry-cleaner. Researchers  identified two bacteria,  Dehalococcoides … Program , they were able to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  …

… chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, …

… these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. …