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New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components … them down.  Lignin is a structural component for the plant, like the brick-and-mortar of a building or the human … as well as degradation products that accumulated as the fungus did its work.  The UC Santa Barbara team worked with …

Developed in 2017, the PDT was established in part to help better-connect industry to JGI resources, as …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the … the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of … Group. Many of these bacterial and archaeal genome sequences have been generated using techniques that the JGI … approaches applied to relatively tractable samples like lakes and rivers could help fill in the gaps,” she …

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from … forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for …

… a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of … Varicosavirus ) which may severely reduce crop yields. Like the typical chytrids and other early-diverging fungi, … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …

Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics … al. (2017) Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence data. Science   355(6322):294-298 Paez-Espino D. et … al. (2015) Microbial species delineation using whole genome sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 43(14):6761-71 Kyrpides NC et …