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The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass  Miscanthus sinensis has been … history and perennial lifecycle makes it important to study directly. The large and complex genome of  M. sinensis … is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets descend from two now-extinct …

… answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters … use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the machine “learned” … the way we currently isolate and extract viruses,” said the study’s lead author Simon Roux, a JGI research scientist in …

… paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education …