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… candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a … of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. The reference … genome built off more than a decade of work; as sequencing technologies advanced, assembly and annotation of the genome …
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… genome could help scale sustainable sugarcane conversion technologies for biofuels and other bioproducts. Finally, … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in this effort. Sequencing and assembling the genome required a custom …
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… soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and … way, the fungi of forest soils hold keys to tree health and carbon storage — skills that matter increasingly as the … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for …
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… hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes … genomic biodiversity. Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, their … (BER) missions. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …
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… a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation process known as the C4 pathway, which … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high quality reference S. viridis genome sequence. Analysis of these plant genome sequences also led …
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… value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of … remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the …
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… invited speakers shared how research infrastructure – DNA sequencing, synthesis, metabolomics, data analysis, and new … talk,” she concluded, “is that as we leverage these amazing technologies that the JGI has to identify and sequence who’s making what, that the context at a microscale …
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