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… approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity … genomes, particularly from incredibly complex soil microbial communities, is crucial to understanding how these … with >90% completeness. These results, noted JGI User Programs Deputy Susannah Tringe , suggest that extracting …
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… to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one … They play key roles in global carbon cycling, are sources of natural products, and have potential as biofuel … tools created by JGI researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for …
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… revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental ch … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using …
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… class at Florida’s Boca Raton Community High School. The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) , a DOE Office of Science User Facility. She took special interest in it … partnership. The class decided to do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched …
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… hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly … characteristics. When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they … enzyme activity assay. The work was reported in The ISME Journal . While the screen caught several microbes from known …
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… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so … In their study , which appeared in The ISME Journal , they focused on how virus-infected microbes are … through an award to MBD and MBS (#2582) and used resources at the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the …
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… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. “To our knowledge, nobody has ever discovered a dispersal gene … JGI group has been wonderful to collaborate with, and this [project] wouldn’t have been possible without their …
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… genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent Nature Genetics paper , researchers … plant lineages makes it ideal for comparative genomics studies, offering insight into genes critical for … of the Marchantia pangenome, scientists developed a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific …
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