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… and the annual user meeting. The UEC also acts as a liaison to the user community and the broader scientific community … UEC responsibilities include: Make recommendations to the JGI regarding calls for proposals, including focus … timing, and proposal review process; Make recommendations to the JGI regarding technical capabilities offered, …

… decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research community.  Published January 17, … still unknown.  “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their …

… the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists … were usually only around 30% complete.  Described in  ISME Communications , a method called Primary Template-Directed … with the JGI. Working together, they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at …

… of the terpene synthase gene family across eucalypt lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of eucalyptus to the flavor of wine, terpenes are ubiquitous. A diverse … partially explains the great variety of terpene products in nature. As part of a proposal by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy …

… researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  … yet abundant subsurface organisms was  recently reported in Nature Communications. The work was co-led by Victoria Turzynski in …

… boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its … (Berkeley Lab). Their findings were described in a recent Nature Communications paper . The work was partly enabled by a JGI … relevant Dikaria”. This work was supported by funds to S.Hac from a European Research Council starting grant …