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… longtime JGI collaborator Sabeeha Merchant’s group. In 2011, they inventoried a swath of blueprints to find parts … a similar region —  a domain of unknown function, DUF2470. In the world of proteins, a domain of unknown function … into focus. Blaby-Haas and her team hypothesized that DUF2470 was key to iron metabolism, and renamed it to Domain …

… had a powerful tool,” Doudna said during her keynote. In 2012, Doudna published results indicating how CRISPR Cas-9 …

… a wide range of research fields. A public repository of 52,515 microbial draft genomes generated from environmental … Using this massive dataset, Nayfach clustered the MAGs into 18,000 candidate species groups, 70% of which were novel … BGCs in IMG/ABC (Atlas of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters) by 31%. ( Listen to this JGI Natural Prodcast episode on genome …

… the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more … has extended the possible virophage genome size range from 13.8-29.3 kilobases (Kb) to 10.9-42.3 Kb. Additionally, the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, “we provide a …

… WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing … organizing nearly a dozen hackathons around the world in 2019, only the JGI hackathon is particularly focused on … maximum of six teams will be hosted at the Hackathon, with 1-2 mentors per team. Participants will be expected to have …

… Tingting Xiang and Sheree Yao. ] ] The JGI welcomed 14 scientists selected for our 2026 Community Science …

… Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research groups. The team set out to characterize the … targets for plant improvement. Surprisingly, about 16 to 56 percent of plant genes are poorly characterized, …

… (in this case, a plant’s complete genetic makeup) and 10 common gardens. We discovered that 8X populations have …

… resulted from a three-way collaboration that began in 2019, recalled Uri Neri of Tel Aviv University, one of the …

… least one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal Genomes initiative of the U.S. Department of … the US Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center (GACRC) …

… that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, most …