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… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two … characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational …

… plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of …

… artificial intelligence to aspects of research questions Another intern summer has closed at the U.S. Department of … Merced cohort consisted of three undergraduate students and eight graduate students, hosted by 18 JGI staff. One of … Asaf Salamov, Igor Grigoriev Project:  Training new JGI genomes with Tiberius Brandon Imstepf Mentor: Brian Bushnell …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  … improved  T. cacao Matina 1-6 genome is now available for comparative purposes on the latest version of the JGI plant … was developing a high quality node for cacao used for systemic orthology to enable use for both cacao functional …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … nutrient cycling that evolved separately from other similar systems, and offers new clues into a unique environment in … This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian …

… researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not … to support a forest, and species vary across Earth’s ecosystems.  Recently, in work  published in  New Phytologist , …