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Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the …

… global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The … time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence data from over 1.3 million publicly available … on solutions.  Compared with past efforts at the JGI, like IMG-ABC, and other academic efforts, SMC is already the …

Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is … and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs multi-omics (metagenomics, …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … evolved to high performance, with specificity — a bit like including hex keys in many different sizes in a …

Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and … to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then … through photosynthesis, but only a fraction have been sequenced.  Adriana Lopes dos Santos from Singapore’s …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 …