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… is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects … outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s CSP investigators,” said Tanja Woyke, Deputy Director …

… big the room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional … but we knew the families,” Kyrpides said. Yet, “almost 20 years of metagenomic data and metagenomic analysis, and … of new protein families had started to plateau in recent years, perhaps suggesting that scientists had “captured” …

… of these varied biomes; the forests share only about 20% of their fungal species. To make useful comparisons, the … this way was challenging, according to Martin. “Twelve years ago, when we mapped the first sequenced RNA from the … Fungal Genomes project changed that. This is a multi-year project in collaboration with the JGI to sequence 1000 …

… Technologies Group. In an article published November 25, 2021 in Nature Methods , JGI researchers led by co-first … ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We noticed a few years ago that there is no shortage of fungal genomes … functional interpretation is as tough as it has been 10 years ago,” he said. “We thought about reconstructing gene …

… in, on, and around the planet remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic … diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from … User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was supported in part by a Natural …

… a disease ravaging citrus groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an estimated … JGI’s Daniel Rokhsar, published over the last half-dozen years, on the ancestral origins of  Citrus sinensis , the …

… broccoli and trees like poplar, spanning about 150 million years of evolution,” said Leo Baumgart, first author on the … that a binding site has been maintained through millions of years of evolution, suggesting it plays an important … proteins from grasses and trees that diverged 150 million years ago, highlighting the deep evolutionary conservation …

… ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined …

… Cited Researchers list assembly by Clarivate Analytics. In 2020, she was named a Yellowhammer Woman of Impact.     … the simplest cotton genome ( Gossypium raimondii ) several years ago.   As well as the seminal Human Genome Project DOE …

… rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely understood, … plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify 2,938 putative AT  genes. Within the AT genes identified … that even enzymes that evolved separately for billions of years have some common signatures of muli-substrate …

… into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an email. “Therefore, …