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Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land …

Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and … scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides. To …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the … Rekha Seshadri, is a wake-up call to revive the art of hands-on microbiology and experimental validation.  Microbes … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user … Structure and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” she will work with Susannah Tringe, JGI’s User … and the interactions of plants with their associated microbiomes. Tringe was also Kaze’s mentor during her 2018 …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … has already demonstrated CRAGE as a versatile engineering system that allows scientists to conduct genome-wide screens … have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied and Environmental …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … but then moves out of the cell structure into a cell-free system. The work complements efforts to further develop … would be transformative at industrial scales. “Cell-free systems have been really powerful at finding ways to …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest … Agricultural University (China), Texas A&M University System, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  … survive in very hot, high-pressure and chemically-rich ecosystems. This means they hold clues for understanding how life … are available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) portal. The study,  published in the  …

… … DAN: Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. … to that and what you guys do when you’re exploring your systems. Because I think the JGI has a little bit of a … massive data into really interesting ways to look at our systems. And so we’ve done quite a bit of work figuring out …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … together, learned from JGI’s Nikos Kyrpides that his Microbiome Data Science group was also working on RNA virus … JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then looked into many more samples and refined our …