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… and longtime JGI collaborator Sabeeha Merchant’s group. In 2011, they inventoried a swath of blueprints to find parts … The end result was a list of genes, termed The GreenCut2 Resource . It details 597 genes coding for proteins that … apt name for a Jane Doe After screening hundreds of GreenCut2 proteins, Blaby-Haas emerged with several ideas of …
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… the discovery of more than 30,000 DGRs in this analysis, a 20-fold increase over what was previously known, throws open … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is … of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources of the National …
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… plants did you all look at? Avinash: We started off with 12 plants, which are JGI Flagship Plants, mostly related to … we are looking at 18 different species, which included over 2000 RNA Seq libraries. As I previously mentioned, this is … to standardize the experimental protocols. Then, in 2020, seven more groups joined the project to contribute to …
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… to keep processes running smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal … to accelerate bio-design and identifying the best sets of enzymes that enable synthesis of sustainable chemical … than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the cell-free system is that the cells are no …
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Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights … into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years … present in archaea with metabolisms involving methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR), the final step in methanogenesis, …
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… are.” But according to a new study published September 16, 2021 in Nature Communications , warmer waters and communities … findings, like antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, and novel enzymes that function at low temperature.” said Katrin …
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As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting … multiple DOE facilities with a single proposal. From the vantage point of JGI’s 25 years fueling discovery, Anderson … milestones of Hamilton Smith’s discovery of restriction enzymes in the 1960s, as well as Jill Banfield and Jennifer …
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… big the room is. A new study published online Oct. 11, 2023 in Nature highlights the vast array of functional … (IMG/M) database, they successfully crafted the Novel Metagenome Protein Families (NMPF) Catalog. “We can now … pivotal applications in biotechnology, such as DNA editing enzymes.” Leveraging Protein Families in a New Way The …
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During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … … Evaluation of Binning Tools for Microbial Eukaryotes in Metagenomes … Functional exploration of Phage Impact on … of Rice and Arabidopsis Roots … Making Big Data Metagenomic Clustering Scalable … Cataloging Lineage Specific …
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