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… genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In … Boeuf and colleagues set sail on research cruises in 2015 and 2016. At Station ALOHA , site of the 30-years-long …

… (MBIB) Division, and Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division at Berkeley Lab.  Building on the momentum … from UDE familiarized themselves with the research programs and user facilities at Berkeley Lab. Commenting on … single cell and systems biology, omics, and big data science, machine learning for experimental science, energy …

… and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on … hills, and it has legacy mining that goes back more than 100 years. And in particular, there’s an inflow from the …

Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and … in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine … Evolution & Genomics, F1000Prime Reviewer for major journals and funding agencies and philanthropic organizations …

… driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the widespread adoption of Brachypodium … his postdoctoral studies at the Carnegie Institution for Science where he studied the molecular basis of a plant … shows highly reproducible physiology and depletion of soil metabolites by a model grass New Phytologist 222: 1149-1160 …

… diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese relative … atmospheric carbon dioxide.  Summary Researchers sequenced 11 samples from Asia–Australasia and 13 samples from the …

… community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency declared the North … populations rely heavily on groundwater as their only source of clean drinking water. Over 90% of the PCE in the …

Annotated GenBank File There are several easy-to-use open source tools for converting DNA sequence files into well-formed GenBank files. ApE is an open source desktop application written by M. Wayne Davis or … options include SnapGene . … How To Use ApE To save your ApE file as a Genbank file, simply go to File -> Save As …

… can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by … cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by researchers at Australia’s … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane …

… on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 representative genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms … interactions. This work,  recently published in  The ISME Journal , by contrast, relied on methods that eschew … the virus had been infecting the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from their sample — a small proportion of the …

… infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so … cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. … In  their study , which appeared in  The ISME Journal , they focused on how virus-infected microbes are …