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… researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director …

… into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … used IMG because the database already contains metagenome datasets from a variety of environments, as well as tools …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the …

… just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … from half of the United States. As  reported January 27, 2021 in  Nature , the team led by researchers at the … at three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs)—the  Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) , the  Center for …

A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the … after countless generations of sequencing platforms (up to 120 sequencing machines at maximum) maintained by a workforce …

… in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. … in Complex Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. In the June 24, 2022, issue of the journal Science, Volland and …