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… have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Path for Metagenomics Researchers Building upon these resources, KBase, a multi-institutional collaborative knowledge …

… to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with significant … with GENESPACE, a computational tool for comparative genomics.   With a more robust reference genome, researchers …

… Four researchers have been elected to the User Executive … topics that the JGI supports that advance DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research (BER) … worked closely with both the Fungal & Algal Program and the Microbial Program over the past decade in gene regulatory …

… at UC Berkeley and the Innovative Genomics Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature … was made possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools … of thermostable Cas9 genes . The work also used resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing …

… Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …

… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time.  “To our knowledge, nobody has ever discovered a dispersal gene … group. It’s just a massive amount of sequencing.”  A Resource for Many Applications Kellogg noted that C4 crops have …

… identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative effort, researchers have … to another, which can have a significant impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, … second only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes living within soil. So, the chitosanase …

… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — … secondary metabolites and associated genes are great resources for bioremediation, new agricultural applications or … studied in plant research laboratories and plant biology courses across the globe for insights into reproductive, …

… The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint … Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision  Lead … complex biological and environmental systems. We optimize our service to the community through responsibly managing …