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… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, … of that machine — photosynthesizers’ DNA and RNA. These sequences provide a list of machine parts, and an idea of … the cell, Grosjean used the JGI-developed  guideRNA and Sequence Extraction Tool (gRNA-SeqRET) to produce knock-out …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery … and improved upon a tool that combines existing DNA sequence binning algorithms, allowing them to reconstruct … to other methods. The Impact Understanding how individual microbes interact with each other in a community, and …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … to climate change and devastating fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. The Science Haloarchaea … and researchers are interested in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline … Impact By collecting and sequencing dominant haloarchaeal sequences from six hypersaline lakes, researchers focused on …

… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental … more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein …

… diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of … genomic biodiversity. Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, their … art of hands-on microbiology and experimental validation.  Microbes run the world, playing key roles in regulating …