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Novel heavy metal resistance gene clusters are present in the genome of Cupriavidus neocaledonicus STM 6070, a new species of Mimosa pudica microsymbiont isolated from heavy-metal-rich mining site soil
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Genome sequence of the thermophilic fresh-water bacterium Spirochaeta caldaria type strain (H1T), reclassification of Spirochaeta caldaria, Spirochaeta stenostrepta and Spirochaeta zuelzerae in the genus Treponema as Treponema caldaria comb. nov.,
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Whole Genome Analyses Suggests that Burkholderia sensu lato Contains Two Additional Novel Genera (Mycetohabitans gen. nov., and Trinickia gen. nov.): Implications for the Evolution of Diazotrophy and Nodulation in the Burkholderiaceae
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Scaling Up Existing Skill Sets
Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their … Year: 3rd year undergraduate student Mentor: Zhong Wang, Genome Analysis What effect has your summer internship with …
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An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria
… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the …
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Triggering Morel Fruiting
A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … external source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information …
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Designer DNA: JGI Helps Users Blaze New Biosynthetic Pathways
A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … This is where the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Program in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team …
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Researching and Solving Real-World Problems with the 2023 JGI-UC Merced Interns
For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced students this past … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … and Exploring Novel BGC Detection Techniques on Fungal Genomes Video Transcript: Emerald Nash : What I’m working on …
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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended
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Zhong Wang
… and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, bioinformaticians, computer … scientific projects. These solutions include large-scale genome variants analyses, next-generation transcriptome de … metagenome binning software … Education … Selected Publications … Software …
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