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… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

… powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move … and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these … (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen Mire. …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … nearly five million barrels of light crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley … the biggest questions was the mystery of the missing oil: “There was oil on the surface and oil below, but no oil in …

… breadth of algal diversity, the numbers of sequenced algal genomes, and the quality of those genomes, is rising. The purpose of this Workshop is to illustrate the expansion of this field and bring it to … at the JGI and KBase toward integrative biology and hear from researchers who are applying genomic sequence …

… Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through early introduction to the resources and disciplines advanced by the JGI, we seek to inspire more students to enter the science, technology, …

… alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha … why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – …

… Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with Biotech … that increase participation in higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from …

… The CSP New Investigator Call is for investigators and research initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must … the PI by the Department of Energy’s funding of the JGI. There is no cost to the user and no granting of funds. … Proposers are encouraged to review the JGI’s sample requirements . Samples that are …

… ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, …

… journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State … Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …