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… produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore … Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety … that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s Office of Science is the largest supporter …

… public database for the research community. With more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … with each other, share annotations and collaborate on solutions.  Compared with past efforts at the JGI, like …

… are on the order of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated with viruses, while the genomes of … co-cultivated with amoeba or with their hosts, though metagenomics is now making it possible to seek out and … reconstructed from environmental sequences is still challenging and even with this study we are likely to just …

JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was to bring … understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity toward … Keenum , Michigan Technological University Martial Marbouty , Institut Pasteur Ken Stedman, Portland State …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in … produce which metabolites. … BS, Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Master's, Biotechnology, University of …

Massie S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Prior to this role, she served … social media. She is also involved in the JGI’s community outreach efforts. Ms. Ballon has a degree in molecular … Equity & Accountability (IDEA) Chairs Council.   … 2020-2021, UC Women’s Initiative (North Cohort) UC Managing Implicit …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be … scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — …

… plants secrete through their roots, creating a lively zone called the rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer …

Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint appointment … evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in … the set of chromosomes from each ancestor is called a subgenome. Session and Rokhsar, building on work …

… can lead to changes in protein structures and functions, but the DNA bases themselves can also be modified. The … least one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal Genomes initiative of the U.S. Department of … technologies for producing both reference genomes and epigenomics, researchers are unwrapping complex mechanisms of …

… poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The … which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department …