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… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … comparable database, and has the capability to store and accurately display eukaryotic and viral BGC sequences. …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have … analysis improve the genome’s accuracy, and increase its length by 29.5 Megabasepairs. 2017: Pan-genome analysis of …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … analysis of the AT enzyme family, the JGI provided DNA synthesis capabilities to enable functional testing of … integral to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called …

… Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how … complex wiring behind a city’s power grid. Just as the flow of electricity controls when and where lights turn on or … complexity of plant genomes. Now, with improvements to DNA Affinity Purification Sequencing (DAP-seq), these …

… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 billion worldwide underscores its value and … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … The phyllosphere, which is known as the aerial surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest … the stronger influence. Although no single environmental variable explained these differences, differences among …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot … acknowledge the significant efforts to collect and extract DNA from these samples, many of which come from unique, …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could … more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of … Genomes to Structure and Function focus area of the JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science Program help advance DOE interests in …

… Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates … in GOLD. “Besides these, he curated several small sets of phylogeny, biosample metadata tasks we assigned.”       …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … which are filamentous viruses with small, single-stranded DNA genomes and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … who also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … the evolutionary history of strawberries wasn’t completely accurate. “They took every single gene from octoploid …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … wondering if perhaps the accepted narrative wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the …