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… base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases … analysis. The story of a massive metagenome assembly for a time-series experiment from the highly-studied Lake Mendota … Microbial ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been sampling microbes at Lake Mendota, which borders the …
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… into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years … climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the … in nearly all types of anaerobic environments suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” …
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… of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be … hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow Salix … reproduce can help guide breeding efforts. For example, discovering genetic markers of sex enables scientists to …
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… microbial communities are affected by warming events. More time-series studies could help researchers improve … weather events such as hurricanes and droughts. Another one began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean … and 2016, Hallam and his colleagues collected more than 270 water samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water …
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… from another JGI portal, IMG: https://img.jgi.doe.gov 7. Q: And what about myxomycetes (Amoebozoa), would you … e.g. erg-1 (instead of the Gene ID etc., which is sometimes not easy to find out) A: If these names are assigned … team. 26. Q: For many of these imported genomes, you mentioned they are filtered , what does/will this filtering …
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… Lab and the Department of Energy (DOE) colleagues. “At that time (1986) 98% of the human genome was thought to be junk … great success. “For the most difficult challenges, no one agency has enough to go for it alone,” he said. A Larger … “Nigel [Mouncey] and his team have continued that excellence.” Drell said that, during his time as program …
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