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… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse 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 …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … an early version of the paper at the 2018 Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium. The work also used …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … 10 times larger. And yet, while they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those … co-cultivated with amoeba or with their hosts, though metagenomics is now making it possible to seek out and …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since been … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … into multiple interconnected layers. The architecture of these algorithms, inspired by communication networks …

… Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to the CSP  … and relevance to the DOE’s mission.  Have someone proofread your proposal to make sure the goals, experimental … the 500-gigabase cap and that you don’t request outside of the sample range that’s listed. Q: What are the pros and …

… Program presents… Eyes on the Prize – Launching & Sustaining Startups in Synthetic Biology Who’s Invited? All … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce … causes Asian Soybean 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 …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … Obsidian Pool hot spring. The researchers applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small …