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… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … the National Academy of Sciences , researchers at Stanford University, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and the U.S. …

… in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, reported on over the … Additionally, working with Michelle O’Malley’s team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he and his …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … and other traits that make it a viable candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled … from these gardens, a team led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality …

… in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing data … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying Zhang of the University of Rhode Island), and to bin metagenomic contigs …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … The origin of this relationship though, is often antagonistic and the parasite first needs to secure its own … a collaborative effort led by researchers at Cornell University and scientists at the Joint Genome Institute, a …

… communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Northern Arizona University, Argonne National Laboratory and the JGI.  With … easier to compare?” said Malmstrom, who worked with JGI Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh to host …

… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  … Understanding these complex symbioses between organisms feeds into a better understanding of nutrient cycling across …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata … and poplar, a team led by Hui-Ling (Sunny) Liao of the University of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of … biogeography in the haloarchaeal gene pool, a team led by University of New South Wales (UNSW)-Sydney professor Rick … (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … His group also handles the Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline  that reveals in situ functional …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the … and his advisor Ian Wheeldon, a chemical engineer at the University of California, Riverside. The team also included …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of … — then a postdoctoral associate in Ed DeLong’s group at the University of Hawaii at Manoa — and colleagues were able to …