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Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document … discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … biology experiments. A recent special issue of the journal Synthetic Biology puts the spotlight on JGI’s DNA … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study … , went a step further, using both DNA and messenger RNA (mRNA) sequencing to identify those traits that have …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … found in all inoviruses, and then checking the surrounding genes,” he said. “If these genes are similar in size and … are important from the standpoint of phage-bacterial coevolution and are also useful tools in CRISPR-Cas …

… more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … and they agreed, providing three articles for the journal with Du Toit as their editor. The partnership has … Igor Grigoriev took readers on a quick romp through the  evolution and domestication of yeast , a model eukaryote. …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … in flowering plants, or angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They … certain gene families — including fungal genes horizontally transferred — contributed to the ecological resistance of …