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… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers … fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new potential for AI-driven studies of energy metabolism. The Science … core gene in nearly half of those same genomes. The team first applied the workflow to a curated reference set of …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to … known to infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the … Genomes Project, which aims to provide a reference genome for each of the fungal families. Researchers had access to …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like …

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The … compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a … ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed with two main objectives. First and foremost, it is a BGC repository that aspires to …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of … other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function … .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … observed, but to the “TACK” superphylum,” said study first author Bojk Berghuis. “This provided us with genetic …

… Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop … plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper … John Lovell, an evolutionary biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of the study. “For that, it’s necessary to have …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal … (RH-Seq). Strains of S. cerevisiae and S. paradoxus were first used to create a sterile interspecific hybrid. In this … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … of methanogenesis, with metagenomic support from the JGI. First they were able to identify the potential for … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson … and Asaf Salamov were part of a team that presented the first large analysis of an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic … it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University … the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes …