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… exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When … replicating a whole community is impossible. Metagenomic sequencing allows researchers to study the entire genetic … enzymes.” Leveraging Protein Families in a New Way The discovery of new protein families had started to plateau in …
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… — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s …
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… less than previously believed. The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … when and how eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in August 2023 in Nature … duplication event — bioinformatics expertise, as well as sequencing for all global populations of eelgrass used in …
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JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect … genes are turned on is known as DNA affinity purification sequencing or DAP-seq. The technology was developed by Ronan O’Malley , who leads the Sequencing Technologies Group. In an article …
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Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging … JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and engineering. … PhD, Microbiology and …
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… learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to … that genetic neighborhood. So anti-CRISPR loci are powerful discovery tools, by finding even one new anti-CRISPR locus, … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …
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