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… in a wide range of research fields. A public repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental … archaea by 44%, is now available and  described November 9, 2020 in  Nature Biotechnology . Known as the GEM (Genomes … this work results from a collaboration involving more than 200 scientists, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy …

… progress in gene editing made possible by CRISPR-Cas9; the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Assaf Vardi, who … began as “curiosity driven research.” In the early 2000s, UC Berkeley colleague and longtime JGI collaborator … the largest component of a genome sequence, accounting for 45% of the human genome and 50-80% of certain plant genomes …

… through computational approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  … them without previously known representatives). Of these, 89 contigs were considered to be complete genomes, and their … the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, “we provide a …

… WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing … organizing nearly a dozen hackathons around the world in 2019, only the JGI hackathon is particularly focused on … code to a new architecture. Proposals are due March 1, 2019 for the JGI hackathon, set for May 6-10, 2019, in Walnut …

… Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research groups. The team … targets for plant improvement. Surprisingly, about 16 to 56 percent of plant genes are poorly characterized, meaning … are looking at 18 different species, which included over 2000 RNA Seq libraries. As I previously mentioned, this is an …

… Streptomyces is more than just a funny word. The 500 species described within the group are responsible for …

… Using this workflow, the team combed through more than 5,000 data sets of RNA sequences (metatranscriptomes) … resulted from a three-way collaboration that began in 2019, recalled Uri Neri of Tel Aviv University, one of the …

… accessible as an interactive website. Since May 2019, v12 has not had any additional genomes added to it, nor … updates. Phytozome  v13, which now hosts upwards of 250 plant genomes and has been under active development for … . Gene pages will also be forwarded (e.g.,  Gene Potri.006G034600 on v12 will be forwarded to  Gene Report:  …

… For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint … Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint … to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and most of the rest of the 200-plus Zoom participants. While the virtual mic shifted to …

… the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or … DNA base is a methylation of the base cytosine at the 5th position on its carbon ring, or 5mC. In many organisms, … the fungal tree of life to date, involving more than 500 species of fungi. The Impact Interactions between plants …