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… Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production in 2017-2018  was 4.6 million metric tons . The global … fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is collaborating …

…                   General attendees: $500     Students: $200      Postdocs: $250     Industry: $700    Thanks for joining the Joint … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user facilities … Click to view a downloadable copy of the sponsor prospectus …

… Data produced and released by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) are subject to … the need to have a limited and time-sensitive protection of certain types of data to support their use by those … this policy) produced through all user projects accepted FY22 and later through the Community Science Program (CSP), …

… With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … pairs to generate a matrix of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, … reflecting factors such as the quality and number of datasets for human microbiome data. In other environments, …

… The JGI’s Genomes OnLine Database celebrates 25 years as a vital resource for data contextualization The … sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, the JGI helped a consortium of … Plant Datasets … Fungal Datasets …

… Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short … DNA (ssDNA). The discovery was made possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes … acids (aa) in size, half that of previously known class 2 CRISPR enzymes that are typically 950—1400 aa. They were …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … of new viruses and plasmids quickly, even in massive datasets. geNomad employs two distinct approaches to … more accurately. Additionally, because it can process large datasets, geNomad is poised to become an essential tool for …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … For that reason, its genome was sequenced by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be a Flagship Plant. By … 400 root and leaf samples and helped analyze the sequencing datasets. The results from the first year showed that 10,727 …

… plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative biofuels and bioproducts. This study lends insights on how the … to thrive in manmade environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of Oslo scientists and including researchers at the Joint …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal species. The 62 mycorrhizal species include 29 … generated by the JGI more than a decade ago. Having these datasets will assist researchers in moving toward functional …