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Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the … Summary As the planet has changed, so have plants. Curious about their ability to adapt to changing environments, … variants with specific adaptation mechanisms they had identified. For example, in comparing how liverwort and …

… of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … and Environmental Research (BER) program to enable scientific discovery in support of the DOE mission. Fermentative … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors … reviewed and assigned NCBI taxonomy name and IDs for nearly 20,000 public/private mtagenome biosamples in GOLD. “Besides … tasks we assigned.”       Click here to watch a video about the Biotech Partner summer interns at the JGI. What …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the microbes. And in order to determine what genes the … other words, some like it hot; some do not. “We can think about the ocean, naively, as a sort of homogeneous medium. …

… they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, … Berkeley National Laboratory’s Sustainable Systems Scientific Focus Area funded by the US Department of Energy …

… at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic … biogeochemical cycles around them. By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the …