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… them to test composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director … process. The JGI’s  CSP Functional Genomics call is open year-round, and reviews submissions twice a year. Proposals submitted by July 30, 2020 will be …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … a JGI Community Science Program proposal that started six years earlier, researchers put together what they called the … a variety of methane-mitigation goals. One aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing … are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane … of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year to do so. As such, they are considered to have a …

… rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely understood, … plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify 2,938 putative AT  genes. Within the AT genes identified … species, each organism has a relatively small set of around 20 ATs. These ATs have maintained a small and relatively …

… into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an email. “Therefore, …