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… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … of proteins in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. He also aims to detect structural … Deep learning algorithms can vectorize faces… … so, why not proteins?         …

… planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers around the world have collaborated with the U.S. … Group. Many of these bacterial and archaeal genome sequences have been generated using techniques that the JGI …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and breed cultivars for the next …

… those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the … that  released a very high quality reference genome sequence of green millet ( Setaria viridis ) in  Nature … assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes. The paper appeared in  Nature Biotechnology . …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, … — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing …

… Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … Tringe’s research group focuses on the roles of microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling and the interactions … will further my goal of resolving the poorly-understood viral pressures on carbon cycling dynamics at the …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … to climate change and devastating fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach … in nature. In the last few years, mapping the planet’s viral diversity has advanced drastically, aided by genome …