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… allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing …

… mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user facility at Berkeley … was employed to build version 4 of the JGI’s  IMG Virus Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 million viral …

… identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have … second only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase … (IMG/M) data portal. The IMG suite is a community resource for comparative analysis and annotation of all …

… gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more nuanced library … published in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offers more ways for scientists to explore … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using … current natural processes and use it as a sustainable resource for making high-value bioproducts. As a step toward … composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director of the MPI for …

… fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it … yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how … component, lignin, that has historically been less of a resource to be extracted and more of an obstacle to breaking …

… microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … DNA could be sequenced. Their protocol,  detailed in the journal  Microbiome , combines multiple techniques and was …

… (MBIB) Division, and Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division at Berkeley Lab.  Building on the momentum … single cell and systems biology, omics, and big data science, machine learning for experimental science, energy … cells in their functional aqueous environment.  During the tours through four national user facilities located at …

… can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by … cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by researchers at Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, the French Agricultural Research …

… and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and his team at the JGI … to DA, FL, and FD from the Duke Institute of Genomic Sciences and Policy (for DNA sequencing and assembly); by a …

… helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported under contract DE-AC02- …

… quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over … makeup of new giant viruses. This review highlights four of these approaches. One way of detecting giant viruses … and potentially even more abundant than bacteria. A fourth option for virus discovery is reconstructing …