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… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary … UEA and including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through early introduction to the … to further develop a more diverse and inclusive pool of talent for career opportunities at JGI and Berkeley Lab. …

… agile collaboration between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI … from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal is a critical resource — it provides access to …

… works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published … National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … from the ACTIVE SITES Research Center (ACSI), the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) of the University … Research Center One Health Ruhr (OHR), and the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Molecular Biophysics and Integrated …

… secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … Repeats) is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has historically been limited due …

Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years … a chemical and biological engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating …

… participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive undertaking: sequencing the …