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Climate Change Threatens Base of Polar Oceans’ Bountiful Food Webs
… oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base … organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary … UEA and including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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Metabolic Potential for Reductive Acetogenesis and a Novel Energy-Converting [NiFe] Hydrogenase in Bathyarchaeia From Termite Guts – A Genome-Centric Analysis
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‘Candidatus Adiutrix intracellularis’, an endosymbiont of termite gut flagellates, is the first representative of a deep‐branching clade of Deltaproteobacteria and a putative homoacetogen
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A Standardized Synthetic Eucalyptus Transcription Factor and Promoter Panel for Re-engineering Secondary Cell Wall Regulation in Biomass and Bioenergy Crops
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Enabling pan-repository reanalysis for big data science of public metabolomics data
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Open Frameworks Training the Next Generation of Scientists
… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS … contributions—including sequencing services and analysis—to participants. Over the past two years, Myco-Ed has been … involving academic faculty and researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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Novel function of the human presqualene diphosphate phosphatase as a type II phosphatidate phosphatase in phosphatidylcholine and triacylglyceride biosynthesis pathways
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Toward More Reproducible, Reusable Stable Isotope Probing Experiments
… shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted … by AI and Machine Learning — JGI researchers and collaborators work to create FAIR datasets to maximize returns on … proposal calls to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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Matt Blow
… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. In this role he supervises the Genome Assembly, QA/QC, and User Support Analysis teams. Together, these teams provide analysis support and R&D for production and user science. He received his Ph.D. from …
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Taking Stock of the Known and Unknown Microbial Space
… decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate what is still unknown.  “We … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User …
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Gene Expression: From On-Off Switch to Dial
… Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to … of gene expression by the gradations. The Impact Metabolic engineering could lead to sustainable pathways for making … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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Supercomputing, MetaHipMer and the Mega Dataset of Lake Mendota
… 25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and organisms than … to enable large-scale analysis. The story of a massive metagenome assembly for a time-series experiment from the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …
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