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… Retracing how the dry rot Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new … biofuels and bioproducts. This study lends insights on how the fungus has responded to manmade changes in its … to thrive in manmade environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of …

… DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 509. Stop by and chat with representatives from KBase and … the JGI about collaborative science opportunities. Learn how to apply for a project with the JGI Community Science Program, and how you can use the KBase system to accelerate your plant …

… the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or … host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for … efficiently and convert it to usable organic compounds. However, no microbe works alone. Archaea, bacteria, and …

… difficult to assemble and interpret. The workshop aimed to showcase how researchers are utilizing deep learning to automatically … community. Other work presented at the workshop included how to use deep learning to predict protein function (Héctor …

… The Blob, researchers developed a preliminary model of how marine microbial communities are affected by warming … studies could help researchers improve predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by … of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02- 05CH11231, the G. Unger Vetlesen and Ambrose Monell …

… components that make it useful for scientific inquiry: it shows a full phylogenetic tree of more than 100 sequenced … experiments; study DNA methylation, which gives clues to how an organism may tune gene expression; and investigate … Knowledgebase (KBase) also allows researchers to study how metabolites flow through and transform in algae. …

… in a wide range of research fields. A public repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental … that time. “Looking across the tree of life, it’s striking how many uncultivated lineages are only represented by … field [metabolic modeling], but they might be interested in how biochemistry impacts what they work on. The genomics …

… cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing … they turn carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugars. How photosynthesis works, though, is much harder to pin … list of genes, termed  The GreenCut2 Resource . It details 597 genes coding for proteins that are unique to …

… which organisms the viruses may be targeting or infecting, how well the targeted organisms are at fending off the infection, and how long this evolutionary arms race has been going on.  …

… (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani …

… environments, and researchers are interested in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to … offers insights into microbial evolution, as well as how Antarctic microbial communities contribute to global … in the very salty waters of Deep Lake to better understand how they’ve adapted to these conditions, information that …