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… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … gene relationships among five allotetraploid cottons, along with noted key fiber development genes. The results … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The JGI consists of 225 researchers and support staff in the Integrative … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a … National Laboratory.  In 1999, to accelerate the completion of DOE’s commitment to the Human Genome Project , the …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee … organisms are at fending off the infection, and how long this evolutionary arms race has been going on.  … and discuss some of the current challenges faced by those using metagenomics to try to understand the far-reaching …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … from different phyla are capable of methanogenesis. Using metagenomics eliminates confirmation bias, because it … “All the microorganisms that we have been studying for a long time have really complicated pathways to make methane,” …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific … , combines multiple techniques and was demonstrated using a specific group of marine bacteria called “Vis6” that … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a … current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my … a gene sequence-based predictor of gene expression levels using machine learning tools. “This was very exciting to see …

… The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held that these fungi don’t have the energy to make … source of antibiotics. Indeed, these anaerobic fungi may be using these compounds for self-defense. But the compounds …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. … work on this project was only the beginning of this much longer-term body of work, the experience helped to solidify … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … including: Nikos Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova and Simon Roux, along with data from a consortium that included Susannah …