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A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a … addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … to conduct genome-wide screens and explore biosynthetic pathway. Thus far, the JGI has deployed CRAGE to successfully …

DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy … of drought on plant metabolism and particularly, what happens in the rhizosphere where plants, microbes and soil …

… are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered surprises, adopted new …

These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, …

… plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… collaboration, with some artistic endeavors along the way. Eventually, the goal is to create an entirely …

… material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from … genomes are critical to serve as phylogenetic anchors for metagenomes studies.  While uncovering the metabolic … based on annotation may not be sufficient. A more recent effort in the Woyke lab is therefore focused on the …

… participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing … to “learn” features. State of the art algorithms can perform astonishing degrees of feature recognition: for … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector representations of …

The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, … viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire … and growth.  This study builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful …

… — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the … the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for the first time, that this group is unexpectedly … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …