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… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to … screens. These results show that this singular library synthesized by JGI was versatile enough for use in multiple …

… sorghum varieties, a resource for breeders and researchers to harness the traits that let this biomass powerhouse … thrive. Within its genome, Sorghum bicolor holds keys to drought and flood resilience, biomass production for … avenues for translating its strengths into other crops for biofuels and bioproducts. Historically, work on sorghum has …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel … Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) initiative. “This project has helped to define the current shape of the microbial tree of … with the JGI’s strategic initiatives. These specialized compounds enable organisms to respond to environmental …

… efficiency for users requiring multiple omics methods to examine microbial chemical production. The Science Soil … They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard … can produce roughly 30 secondary metabolites — chemical compounds not required for basic survival but often useful …

… over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in …

… in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 … graduate student Mentors: Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, Fungal and Algal Program What effect has your summer … structure, and found everyone to be welcoming and helpful. While I am unsure in exactly what area I will …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect … These atlases of transcription factor binding sites can help you better understand known biological functions as … the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP) focuses on a fungal comparative ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We …

… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once … scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a colored-in page of that …