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April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close … of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head …

Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. He also aims to detect structural similarities …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … an interactive public database for the research community. With more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that … to the symbiotic lifestyle. The Impact The analysis enables researchers to understand how plants and fungi …

… wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach … Sciences Research Center  Alexander Fleming. “This was a massive analysis of 1.3 billion proteins with massively …

Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … Seshadri. Writing the  Nature   Reviews column all started with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  …

… human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed … 2020. A genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of agronomically valuable loci. Nature … Award … Plant Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the … efforts. For example, discovering genetic markers of sex enables scientists to develop molecular assays that can …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … was green millet (Setaria viridis), a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation process … out there that affect this phenotype.’”  Results from A “Massive Amount” of Sequencing  Seed dispersal is critical …

… function in bacteria. Since 2016, he has been the lead of the User Support Analysis group. The group performs … Free-Living Growth and during Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis with  Medicago spp. Msystems 7 (1), e01092-21 3. Baumgart et … board member for Scientific Reports … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …