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… number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … results showed that these fungi may be able to provide tools beyond biomass breakdown, extending into biochemical … — is  building on this work to explore an enzymatic ‘toolbox’ of biomass-degrading capabilities for anaerobic …

… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Laboratory for … and genomic features of this giant filamentous bacterium, along with its life cycle. For most bacteria, their DNA floats …

… array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers … studied microbial communities across five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long history of dynamic evolution and rapid changes in both …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, …

The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been … chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene … genome for M. sinensis, and the associated genomic tools, allows Miscanthus to both inform and benefit from …

In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting … that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses are also able to play a long game. In a …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute … with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have  recently …

… make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at … targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and associate … their sequences with their roles within their environments. Summary The traditional shotgun metagenomics …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in  … sustainable agriculture and was written by JGI computational biologist Rekha Seshadri. Writing the  Nature   Reviews …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI …

… proposals have been accepted from 70 full submissions based on 92 letters of intent. Additionally, 40 percent of the proposals were submitted by …