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… This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together …

… Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense … is a pioneer in metagenomic studies, recovering microbial genomes from biofilm samples at the Richmond Mine in Iron … for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems Mol Cell. 2020 Aug 6;79(3):416-424.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.06.022. Wright …

… key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that …

… order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility … in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The … The work is supported by NIH Common Fund grant 1U24HL175772-01. This is not the first time Kyrpides and his …

… lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader … lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing major fungal families, including those … were previously no genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal species. The 62 …

… the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand … processes for the first time. By collecting data from 27 different poplar ( Populus trichocarpa ) trees, as well as … were provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science … hallii (Hall’s panicgrass), by generating two complete genomes from varieties that diverged over a million years … ) is a candidate bioenergy feedstock with a complex genome with multiple copies of its chromosomes. Switchgrass …

… researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal … and developed new tools to map that soil RNA to fungal genomes.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …