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… years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the widespread adoption of Brachypodium distachyon as an experimental model for the … collaboration with industrial partners, generated hundreds of transgenic switchgrass lines in an effort to create …
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… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments. …
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… . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and … and optimized by Ronan O’Malley, who leads the JGI’s Sequencing Technologies group. DAP-seq allowed the team to …
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… Metagenome Stability Diagram — a tool within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform — has … and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a …
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… sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … are accessible on JGI data portals including the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, enhancing … a broad range of activities from proposal intake to publication. Information is also obtained and cross-checked …
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… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …
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… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … crops. Additionally, cotton is almost entirely made up of cellulose and it is a fiber model to understand the … Science “The results described in this Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …
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… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … researchers from 67 countries. Those from the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and …
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… through the plant portal Phytozome . Now the portal offers a way for users to more easily access public data sets through a common set of metadata. For Steve Wilson, JGI’s Systems Engineering … requires that users know about the FY Funding Year, and the publication status in addition to the public/private status. …
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