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… genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers … plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … Energy operated under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This project received funding from the European Research Council …

… led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the … source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every … mycelium to acquire carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant litter and to incorporate the …

… mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … used computational resources from the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of the U.S. …

… in support of JGI’s contributions to the Human Genome Project, he began developing larger comparative genomic … for the JGI's direct collaborators and the wider plant science community. Dr. Goodstein’s group also develops and … NY … RJ Craig et al., 2023.The Chlamydomonas Genome Project, version 6: Reference assemblies for mating-type …

… can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by … . The work led by researchers at Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, the French Agricultural Research … of Experimental Botany (IEB) was supported by the ERDF project “Plants as a Tool for Sustainable Global …

… single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting … of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from microbial and metagenome sequence data sets generated from a …

DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on … Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the  DOE Office of Science … Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program . Her research project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane …

… others providing complementary expertise to advance the science and serve as impact multipliers . The JGI has a … Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and data infrastructure projects—the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) and … through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program.     …

Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has released their 2019 list … of 21 fields appear on the 2019 list. Congratulations to: Project Manager Kerrie Barry, Cross-Field Category Fungal … Animal Science and Molecular Biology & Genetics categories Microbial Systems research group lead and User Programs …

… networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, … the work being done as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Funding for the project was also provided by the …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is … and applications. This program has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also … sugar polymers in macroalgae and developing the first microbial platform technologies unlocking the potential of …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are ocean-floor openings in the … these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers studied microbial communities across five oceanic regions. In doing …