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… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … of researchers have found that there is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more … sequences assembled as part of its 1000 Fungal Genomes Project . To map microbial activity, Baldrian’s team …

… expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of … scarf, striped hat, round-rimmed glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described … developed an algorithm that a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the … Plant Sale. All year, the JGI helps support finding solutions to clean energy and environmental challenges. And many … now IGB-wide ZERO Waste Initiative began its most ambitious project yet: a special recycling program to recycle lab …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and …

… EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the  Environmental Molecular Sciences … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the … JGI group has been wonderful to collaborate with, and this [project] wouldn’t have been possible without their …

… Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA …

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical … by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," …

… Janey provides support for custom single-cell user projects and projects within the group. …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome … Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The work was supported by …