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… Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Flavonoid and lignin analysis was partially supported by the DOE, Office of …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … 10 times larger. And yet, while they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those … co-cultivated with amoeba or with their hosts, though metagenomics is now making it possible to seek out and …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since been … In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and …

… The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … Obsidian Pool hot spring. The researchers applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to … food web and change the oceans as we know them. At the base of marine food webs are microscopic photosynthesizing …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 different types of NEON samples and specimens per year. This NEON-focused …