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Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the series of interviews we recorded at the Society for Industrial … enzymes to do chemical reactions. Obviously, in my work, in genome mining, we have an awful lot of crossover, where us … about making them. So I really came at it not necessarily based on the biology really just from as a simple organic …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director … by combining computational genome analysis, sequence-based genetic methods, and comparative developmental … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant … analysis led to the identification of 328 “high quality” (based on completeness) diverse new virophage genomes … and even animal and human (for the first time) gut and taxonomically classified into 27 distinct clades (17 of them …

JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  … (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different … – Sphagnum fallax and S. magellanicum. The draft genome for  S. fallax is already available on the  JGI plant …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … of Alaska and Norway, as well as California and Mexico. Based on the study, it would seem that once conditions … form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … over 1.3 million publicly available bacterial and archaeal genome and contig sources.  The Impact Secondary metabolites …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … cattails. In 2018, the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one place where you can … and enthusiasts to look deep into more than 100 algal genomes, compare them, and visualize supporting experimental …

… of those shared by both humans and flowering plants). Its genome also contains hundreds of genes uniquely associated … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference … organism as a model system. “People name genes based on similarity to the Chlamy genes,” Merchant …