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… back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely understood, leaving potential targets for crop engineering untouched. Research recently published … Korea as well as a faculty affiliate in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of Lawrence Berkeley …

… 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and Saganbacteria that diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria and its contemporaries. Margulisbacteria …

… from the panel discussion  here . Contact  Robin Johnston for followup questions.     … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … Obsidian Pool hot spring. The researchers applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small …

… research team included scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, Brookhaven National … enabled by the “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) collaborative science initiative … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science . …

… by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon … vegetation types in the world combined. Harvesting peat for energy has been increasingly discouraged due to … Berkeley National Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants …

… living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are … and chemically-rich ecosystems. This means they hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments. … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, contributed metagenomic sequencing to the study as well as  genome analysis, …

… virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific guidelines and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses. Following up on … which limits the ability of researchers to accurately perform functional assessment, host prediction, and …

… For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … a more systematic picture through single-cell and metagenomic sequencing. A team co-led by Mária Džunková, … virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 …

… occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, understanding the microbial activity that dominates … years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for nearly five decades. In these frigid systems, where … collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  …

… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these … as terrestrial soil, having additional isolates and metagenomic datasets will strengthen future virus-host …