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… in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences. This opportunity, provided by the Department of … builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI though not formally analyzed or … … A primary purpose of this project is to bring educators from a broad range of disciplines up-to-speed with some of …

… interview with my co-host Alison Takemura, who’s moved on from JGI to do real journalism, and we wish her all the … at JGI start with sequencing, but where else did those sequences go? Like, what are the other scientific tools we … that describe the work. In general. Scientific merit and why it’s important. The DOE mission is one of these …

This time, we’ve got a great interview with Ben Shen, from the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter Florida. This … the paradigm of how to discover natural products. So, why I’m very excited to be working with Dan, you, with the … develop enabling technologies. ie how to translate the ATGC sequence into discrete small molecules. So, Dan, I’m very …

… microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for … than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem …

… to bring generalizable technologies to bacteria, yeasts and algae previously with little to no genetic tools enabling …

Duncan: Yeah. I love actinomycetes. Dan Udwary: Tell us why. I mean, I know, but I think– Alison Takemura: I want to … have a couple of projects in the lab that also work in microalgae as well. So it’s not just actinobacteria that we work … of almost finished characterizing them. We’ve got genome sequences, which are just incredible. We’ve looked at the …

As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal … multiple organisms: a coral host, a photosynthetic microalgae, and a little-characterized microbiome. When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including …

… and delays on the work. The transfer of a proposal from one commercial institution to a new commercial … Before work can begin on proposals submitted by researchers from another DOE National Laboratory, a JGI-BDLUA ,  BDLUA … multiple collaborator proposals submitted by researchers from another Federal Agency, all collaborating institutions …

… capabilities support researchers exploring how to convert sequence into functional assessments. This is done by … platform enables users to validate hypotheses generated from mining genomic data by designing and assembling … design tool  … BOOST provides a suite of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, Yeast recombination …

Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. … Apple Podcasts or wherever you’re getting this and tell me why you’re listening. DAN: But, now, here’s Natural Prodcast … And that’s been followed by developments in pulse sequences and improvements in the ways in which you acquire …

… about the basics of genome mining, which is using DNA sequence to identify and interpret biosynthetic, secondary … we get to present our conversation with Marnix Medema , from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Marnix is … biological perspective, like what was this bacterium, and why did your group want to study it? Marnix Medema: You mean …