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… Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of … Berkeley National Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column … off the press. She tells prospective authors, “’Once you find a paper that you really like or are passionate about, …

… computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and LBNL’s Computational Research Division. As a postdoc, her research focused on stable and … methods for reacting subsurface flows, and evolved into scalable methods for scientific data analysis. In 2014 …

… and environment challenges. The JGI offers these solutions to the worldwide scientific community through its  User … And to understand those microbes, he is most interested in looking through a quantitative lens. This led to the … they’re there and you can use protein sequences to try and find them,” he explained. “…You train on as many structures …

… lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of eucalyptus to the flavor of wine, terpenes are ubiquitous. A diverse … or duplicate arrays, these genes are prone to rapid genetic expansion which partially explains the great variety … gene clusters were mapped against those of E. grandis to find differences in genome organization between the two …

… sorghum varieties, a resource for breeders and researchers to harness the traits that let this biomass powerhouse … for this plant. In other lines around the world, much more genetic diversity exists.  Now, researchers have brought … link genetic variation more closely with gene function and find new ways to implement traits of interest in crops. …

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… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex … strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex … called Z and W instead of X and Y, and ZW rather than ZZ encodes for females. To better understand how sex …