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… to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Within days of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that … Berkeley Lab. Over the next decade, the JGI’s single cell genomics and metagenomics capabilities were harnessed in …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The Science … cells harbored mobile genetic elements that were missed within paired metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs), and that … for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, by piecing each genome together …

… is one of the largest data repositories of its kind, with an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and … sprung up in almost all branches of eukaryotes (organisms with a nucleus). In part because of this evolutionary … sequence and understand. A team of researchers led by Algal Genomics Program lead Igor Grigoriev and data scientist Alan …

… Olpidium attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … and analysis of their data at the time. Following the publication of their paper in 2011, Dr. Sekimoto from … of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides …

… Editor’s Note: Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab …

… approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the tried-and-true method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes …

… trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with the humans and the biosphere), including the global … genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In the  Proceedings of the National Academy …

… of scientific policy, engaging in interactions with the scientific community at large. … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, … tolerant CAM plants, Agave deserti and Agave tequilana. BMC Genomics  14, 563. May D, Blow MJ, Kaplan T, McCulley DJ, …

… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms oil-producing alga … alga naturally produces high amounts of oil and can grow with or without light. The relatively small size of its … mission of the Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program to advance a …

… of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a particular … set a reference for its performance, and then applied it to environmental samples from the Great Boiling Spring … this microbe. The work is an example of how function-driven genomics, which Woyke and her colleagues define as “any form …

… terpenes play key roles in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions. Terpenes are also economically … Corymbia are more abundant in the drier parts of Australia with lower quality soils and even in the desert areas with poor rainfall. That said, Corymbia can also thrive in …