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… most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed … Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time estimates for major colonization events. It was previously assumed, … locations.  One group investigated changes in protein sequences, while others analyzed single point mutations …

… relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US … called crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM — that’s C-A-M, for short — helps plants that have it lose less water in a … We all know plants take up water through their roots. But for them to be able to pull that water through the whole …

… genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a senior research scientist at … of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for vitamins, insecticides, fungicides, platform chemicals, … is also on the Leadership Team of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative and served as President of the Society …

… 25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and … before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — that’s three-quadrillion base pairs of DNA …

… by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon … vegetation types in the world combined. Harvesting peat for energy has been increasingly discouraged due to … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team …

… infrastructure – DNA sequencing, synthesis, metabolomics, data analysis, and new technology developments – has … is wild,” and admitting, “friends give me a hard time for that.” But the title brought him back to his first … these amazing technologies that the JGI has to identify and sequence who’s making what, that the context at a microscale …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications. … under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and … and research scientist in Nikos Kyrpides’  Microbiome Data Science group. “What makes this study really stand out …

… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked … over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year history. In …