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… sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … a broad range of activities from proposal intake to publication. Information is also obtained and cross-checked …
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… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), comes in. The JGI is uniquely positioned to enable this kind of science; through its DNA … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …
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… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi … Lawrence (2014 graduate intern): Accepted a post-doctoral position with the Plant and Microbe Interaction group at Oak …
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… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the … functional traits through the soil profile and their relationships with soil properties that co-vary with depth … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …
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… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures …
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… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in Nature … , a team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …
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… online Oct. 11, 2023 in Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … at protein function within them. The work was led by a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …
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… hydroxyapatite, a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers at two U.S. Department of Energy national user facilities – the DOE Joint Genome … in the development and biotechnology applications of various biomaterials. These efforts align with BER …
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… Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation. Understanding how … complex wiring behind a city’s power grid. Just as the flow of electricity controls when and where lights turn on or … processes. Traditionally, mapping this intricate network of regulatory “switches” in plants at a large scale was akin …
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… 21-23, 2023, attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting. A wide array of invited speakers shared how research infrastructure – DNA … most pressing energy and environment challenges. The JGI offers these solutions to the worldwide scientific community …
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… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely … integral to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called …
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… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the … expanded 10-fold from just 205 genomes, redefining the phylogenetic tree of giant viruses. Metabolic Reprogramming …
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