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… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase). They also built an … Explorer ( GitHub ) with a series of large datasets. One test was to predict traits of more than 400 cultured …

… Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … didn’t have a reliable calibration tool in the form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational … shifted from condensed matter physics to computational biology, genomics and evolutionary biology. Dr. Rokhsar’s … AB in Physics, Princeton University, NJ MS in Theoretical …

… Knockout experiments showcase potential for engineering bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at … Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of … (to C.-J.L.) and by the Joint BioEnergy Institute, one of the Bioenergy Research Centers of the US DOE, Office …

… DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS … a joint research call. Submitted proposals addressed one of the following focus topic areas: Biofuels and … also assessing the role of viruses in the soil microbiome. Another accepted proposal in the inter-organismal …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and … clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the fungus’ …

… Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates …

… Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts … gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. In one way or another, they’ve all mentioned how invaluable their time at …

… A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is … about cellulose-degrading microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy … plants are diploids with two copies of each chromosome, one inherited from each parent. Some plants, known as … a diploid M. sinensis and a tetraploid M. sacchariflorus , another species of Miscanthus that was sequenced. …